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ANS71 courses
ANS 001Domestic Animals & People
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Animal domestication and factors affecting their characteristics and distribution. Animal use for food, fiber, work, drugs, research and recreation; present and future roles in society.ANS 002Introductory Animal Science
Sign upGrowth, reproduction, lactation, inheritance, nutrition, and disease control in domesticated animals and species used in aquaculture; the application of sciences to animal production.ANS 012Animal Science: Basic Principles & Application
Sign upOverview of domestic and global animal industries. Exploration of production systems, animal biology, genetics, anatomy, physiology, reproduction, health, behavior, research, biotechnology and welfare.ANS 015Introductory Horse Husbandry
Sign upIntroduction to care and use of light horses emphasizing the basic principles for selection of horses, responsibilities of ownership, recreational use and raising of foals.ANS 017Canine Behavior: Learning & Cognition
Sign upDomestic dog behavior from basic principles of learning to complex cognitive behaviors; interaction between learning and cognition including how these processes contribute to interactions with humans; basic genetic correlates of learning and cognition.ANS 018Introductory Aquaculture
Sign upHistorical and contemporary aquacultural practices. Interaction between the aqueous culture environment and the biology of aquatic animals. Impact of economics and governmental policies on the development of aquaculture. Interaction of aquacultural practices with larger societal goals.ANS 021Livestock & Dairy Cattle Judging
Sign upEvaluation of type as presently applied to light horses, meat animals and dairy cattle. Relationship between form and function, form and carcass quality, and form and milk production.ANS 022AAnimal Evaluation
Sign upAttendance at 3 one-day weekend field trips required. Domestic livestock species with emphasis on visual appraisal, carcass evaluation, and application of performance information. Emphasis on accurate written and oral descriptions of evaluations. Prerequisite to intercollegiate judging competition.ANS 022BAnimal Evaluation
Sign upAttendance at three one-day weekend field trips required. Continuation of ANS 022A with emphasis on specific species: swine, beef cattle and sheep. Application of animal science principles to selection and management problem-solving scenarios. Prerequisite to intercollegiate judging competition.ANS 041Domestic Animal Production
Sign upPrinciples of farm animal management, including dairy and beef cattle, sheep, and swine. Industry trends, care and management, nutrition, and reproduction.ANS 041LDomestic Animal Production Laboratory
Sign upAnimal production principles and practices, including five field trips to dairy cattle, beef cattle, sheep, and swine operations and campus labs.ANS 042Introductory Companion Animal Biology
Sign upCompanion animal domestication. Historical, contemporary perspectives. Legislation concerning companion animals. Selected topics in anatomy, physiology, genetics, nutrition, behavior and management. Scientific methods in studying the human-animal bond.ANS 049AAnimal Management Practices: Aquaculture
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049BAnimal Management Practices: Beef
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049CAnimal Management Practices: Dairy
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049DAnimal Management Practices: Goats
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049EAnimal Management Practices: Horses
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049FAnimal Management Practices: Laboratory Animals
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049GAnimal Management Practices: Meats
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049HAnimal Management Practices: Poultry
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049IAnimal Management Practices: Sheep
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049JAnimal Management Practices: Swine
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 049KAnimal Management Practices: Captive & Companion Avian
Sign upApplication of the principles of elementary biology to the management of a specific animal species. Up to four different topics may be taken.ANS 100Animal Physiology
Sign upBasic principles of animal physiology in domesticated and captive animals with a comparative approach. Molecular, biochemical, chemical and physical aspects and their influences on function of physiological systems in animals.ANS 103Animal Welfare
Sign upApplication of principles of animal behavior and physiology to assessment and improvement of the welfare of wild, captive, and domestic animals. Topics include animal pain, stress, cognition, motivation, emotions, and preferences, as well as environmental enrichment methods.ANS 104Principles & Applications of Domestic Animal Behavior
Sign upBasic principles of animal behavior as applied to domesticated species. Emphasis placed on application of the principles of animal behavior.ANS 106Domestic Animal Behavior Laboratory
Sign upResearch experience with the behavior of large domestic animals. Experimental design, methods of data collection & analysis, and reporting of experimental results.ANS 107Zoo Biology & Research
Sign upIntroduction to the modern zoo, including history, staffing structure, aspects of animal care such as housing, social management, and enrichment, research in genetics, health, nutrition, behavior, cognition, and guest perceptions.ANS 108Equine Behavior & Welfare
Sign upImprove the understanding and application of good welfare practices when managing, training, transporting, treating, or breeding equine. Recognize changes in behavior or causes related to comprised health or welfare.ANS 112Sustainable Animal Agriculture
Sign upCurrent applications of sustainable animal agriculture including the challenges of animal production, animal needs, animal well-being, and protection of the environment and resources for future food supply systems. Various scenarios for meeting sustainability objectives are evaluated using computing modeling.ANS 113Meat Safety & Hazard Analysis & Critical Control Points
Sign upFundamentals of meat safety and Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP). Principles, development, implementation of HACCP. Control of physical, chemical, biological hazards assuring meat/food safety via programs (Good Manufacturing Practices, Sanitation Standard Operating Procedures), hazard analysis critical control points.ANS 115Advanced Horse Production
Sign upFeeding, breeding, and management of horses; application of the basic principles of animal science to problems of production of all types of horses. Designed for students who wish to become professionally involved in the horse industry.ANS 118Fish Production
Sign upCurrent practices in fish production; relationship between the biological aspects of a species and the production systems, husbandry, management, and marketing practices utilized. Emphasis on species currently reared in California.ANS 119Invertebrate Aquaculture
Sign upManagement, breeding and feeding of aquatic invertebrates; application of basic principles of physiology, reproduction, and nutrition to production of mollusks and crustaceans for human food; emphasis on interaction of species biology and managerial techniques on production efficiencies.ANS 120Principles of Meat Science
Sign upAnatomical, physiological, developmental, and biochemical aspects of muscle underlying the conversion of muscle to meat. Includes meat processing, preservation, microbiology, and public health issues associated with meat products.ANS 120LMeat Science Laboratory
Sign upLaboratory exercises and student participation in transformation of live animal to carcass and meat, structural and biochemical changes related to meat quality, chemical and sensory evaluation of meat, and field trips to packing plant and processing plant.ANS 123Animal Growth & Development
Sign upGrowth and development of animals from conception to maturity, viewed from practical and biological perspectives; includes genetic, metabolic, nutritional control of cell and organism function.ANS 124Lactation
Sign upBiochemical, genetic, physiological, nutritional, and structural factors relating to mammary gland development, the initiation of lactation, the composition of milk and lactational performance.ANS 125Equine Exercise Physiology
Sign upBasic and applied physiology of the exercising horse. Includes physiological systems, gait analysis, lameness, pharmacology, sports medicine; sport horse performance evaluation and conditioning.ANS 126Equine Nutrition
Sign upEquine digestion, digestive physiology, diet development and evaluation, and the relationship of the topics to recommended feeding practices and nutritional portfolios.ANS 127Advanced Equine Reproduction
Sign upReproductive physiology, anatomy and endocrinology of the mare and stallion. Emphasis on structure/function relationships as they are applied to improving equine reproductive management and efficiency.ANS 128Agricultural Applications of Linear Programming
Sign upApplications of linear programming in agriculture, emphasizing resource allocation problems and decision making. Problems include crop production, ration formulation, and farm management. Hands-on experience in developing linear programs and interpreting the results.ANS 129Environmental Stewardship in Animal Production Systems
Sign upManagement principles of environmental stewardship for grazing lands, animal feeding, operations and aquaculture operations; existing regulations, sample analyses, interpretation and utilization of data, evaluation of alternative practices, and policy development.ANS 130Endocrinology Laboratory
Sign upExperimental approaches used in animal endocrinology research. Introductions to a variety of topics to help assimilate many ideas from physiology courses, experimental approaches, and skills reading and interpreting scientific papers.ANS 131Reproduction & Early Development in Aquatic Animals
Sign upPhysiological and developmental functions related to reproduction, breeding efficiency and fertility of animals commonly used in aquaculture.ANS 132Microbiology of Animal Systems Laboratory
Sign upBasic microbiology techniques and the ability to produce recombinant proteins from genomic information. Importance of carbohydrate degrading enzymes in animal systems. Animal systems of interest range from the digestive tract of animals (e.g. rumen) to animal waste (e.g. manure).ANS 133Animal Cell Culture Laboratory
Sign upDesign, conduct, analyze, and present a research project involving cell culture.ANS 134Animal Nutrition Laboratory
Sign upAnimal nutrition research experience for senior-level students. Forming a valid hypothesis, designing treatments, preparing for experiments, recording measurements in the field, summarizing results. Emphasis on developing essential research skills & proper techniques for collecting, summarizing, and presenting data.ANS 135Production Animal Laboratory
Sign upBiochemical methods for developing and conducting research with production animals, and interpreting and presenting data. Laboratory focus course which uses sheep as model. There may be one or two mandatory all day Saturday field trips.ANS 136Techniques & Practices of Fish Culture
Sign upDaily care and maintenance of fish in residential aquariums, research and commercial facilities. Biological and environmental factors important to sound management of fish. Laboratories focus on fish culture including growth trials and biochemical assays.ANS 137Techniques & Practices of Avian Culture
Sign upDaily care and maintenance of birds for research, commercial production and companion or hobby uses. Biological and environmental factors important to sound management of birds. Laboratories focus on bird husbandry, management and care and include growth trials and biochemical assays.ANS 138Meat Quality & Safety Laboratory
Sign upAdvanced hands-on experience with meat and food related research. Development of laboratory skills in chemistry, biochemistry, microbiology, and meat science.ANS 139Experimental Animal Physiology
Sign upCombination of theory and hands-on experiences in animal physiology using various experimental techniques. Practical laboratory skill development from cellular level to whole animal, in areas such as genetics, endocrinology, histology and physiological function.ANS 140Management of Laboratory Animals
Sign upLaboratory animal management procedures in view of animal physiology, health and welfare, government regulations, and experimental needs. Clinical techniques using rodents and rabbits as models.ANS 141Equine Enterprise Management
Sign upExamination of the concepts and principles involved in the operation of an equine enterprise. Essential aspects of equine enterprise management, including equine law, marketing, cash flow analysis, and impact of state and federal regulations.ANS 142Companion Animal Care & Management
Sign upManagement and production of companion animals. Integration of the disciplinary principles of behavior, genetics, nutrition, and physiology as related to the care of companion animals.ANS 143Pig & Poultry Care & Management
Sign upCare and management of swine, broilers and turkeys as related to environmental physiology, nutrition and metabolism, disease management and reproduction. Saturday field trips.ANS 144Beef Cattle & Sheep Production
Sign upGenetics, physiology, nutrition, economics and business in beef cattle and sheep production. Resources used, species differences, range and feedlot operations. Emphasis on integration and information needed in methods for management of livestock enterprises. One or two Saturday field trips.ANS 145Meat Processing & Marketing
Sign upDistribution, processing and marketing of meat and meat products. Meat and meat animal grading and pricing. Government regulations and social/consumer concerns. Future trends and impact on production management practices. Includes poultry.ANS 146Dairy Cattle Production
Sign upScientific principles from genetics, nutrition, physiology, and related fields applied to conversion of animal feed to human food through dairy animals. Management and economic decisions are related to animal biology considering the environment and animal well-being. Mandatory Saturday field-trip.ANS 147Dairy Processing & Marketing
Sign upExamination of distribution systems, processing practices, product quality, impact of government policy (domestic and foreign), marketing alternatives, and product development.ANS 148Enterprise Analysis in Animal Industries
Sign upExamination and application of decision making and problem solving in the production enterprise. Areas of production analysis, problem solving, risk analysis and cost-benefit analysis will be examined in terms of the total enterprise.ANS 149Farrier Science
Sign upIn-depth examination of the structure-function relationship of the equine hoof and how it relates to conformation, injury and performance.ANS 149LFarrier Science Laboratory
Sign upArt and science of horseshoeing in equine related fields. Proper use of the tools, materials and techniques in the fabrication of shoes and safe preparation of the hoof for application of shoes.ANS 150Animal Health & Disease
Sign upBasic concepts of animal immunology, microbiology, parasitology, epidemiology, vaccination, and how the knowledge can be used to improve animal health and prevent animal infection & disease. Includes relevant health and disease issues.ANS 160AStress & Reproduction I
Sign upEvaluation of the impact of chronic stress on male reproductive development. Isolation stress tests on young animals. Data collection of treatment and control groups. Biological laboratory techniques and analysis. Two-quarter course.ANS 160BStress & Reproduction II
Sign upEvaluation of the impact of chronic stress on male reproductive development. Isolation stress tests on young animals. Data collection of treatment and control groups. Biological laboratory techniques and analysis. Two-quarter course.ANS 170Ethics of Animal Use
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Ethical issues relating to animal use in contemporary society. Integration of philosophical theories with scientific evidence relating to animal behavior, mentality, and welfare. Uses of animals in agriculture, research, and as companions.ANS 200Strategies in Animal Production
Sign upExamines the forces and issues in animal agriculture through the strategic management process.ANS 206Models in Agriculture & Nutrition
Sign upBasic model building principles and techniques for statistical and systems simulation models. Optimization techniques for non-linear experimental designs and management models are presented. Quantitative analysis and evaluation of linear and non-linear equations used in agriculture and nutrition.ANS 259Literature in Animal Science
Sign upCritical presentation and analysis of recent journal articles in animal science.
BIM81 courses
BIM 001Introduction to Biomedical Engineering
Sign upIntroduction to the field of biomedical engineering with emphasis on design, careers, and specializations, including (1) medical devices (2) cellular & tissue engineering, (3) biomechanics, (4) systems & synthetic biology, and (5) biomedical imaging.BIM 020Fundamentals of Bioengineering
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Basic principles of mass, energy and momentum conservation equations applied to solve problems in the biological and medical sciences.BIM 020LGraphics Design for BME
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Computer-aided design and its application to problems in Biomedical Engineering.BIM 102Cellular Dynamics
Sign upFundamental cell biology for bioengineers. Emphasis on physical concepts underlying cellular processes including protein trafficking, cell motility, cell division and cell adhesion. Current topics including cell biology of cancer and stem cells will be discussed.BIM 105Probability & Data Science for Biomedical Engineers
Sign upConcepts of probability, random variables, stochastic processes, mathematical modeling, and data analysis, with applications to biomedical engineering. Includes combinatorics, discrete, continuous, and jointly distributed random variables, probability distributions and models, Markov Chains, and Poisson Processes.BIM 106Biotransport Phenomena
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Principles of momentum and mass transfer with applications to biomedical systems; emphasis on basic fluid transport related to blood flow, mass transfer across cell membranes, and the design and analysis of artificial human organs.BIM 107Manufacturing Processes for BME
Sign upManufacturing processes and computer numerical control methods applied to the design and fabrication of biomedical devices.BIM 108Biomedical Signals & Control
Sign upSystems and control theory applied to biomedical engineering problems. Time-domain and frequency-domain analyses of signals and systems, convolution, Laplace and Fourier transforms, transfer function, dynamic behavior of first and second order processes, and design of control systems for biomedical applications.BIM 109Biomaterials
Sign upIntroduce important concepts for design, selection and application of biomaterials. Given the interdisciplinary nature of the subject, principles of polymer science, surface science, materials science and biology will be integrated into the course.BIM 110LBiomedical Engineering Senior Design Lab
Sign upManufacturing processes, safety, computer-aided design techniques applied to fabrication of biomedical devices.BIM 111Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Basic biomedical signals and sensors. Topics include analog and digital records using electronic, hydrodynamic, and optical sensors, and measurements made at cellular, tissue and whole organism level.BIM 116Physiology for Biomedical Engineers
Sign upBasic human physiology for the nervous, musculoskeletal, cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, renal, and endocrine systems. Emphasis on small group design projects and presentations in interdisciplinary topics relating biomedical engineering to medical diagnostic and therapeutic applications.BIM 117Modeling Strategies for Biomedical Engineering
Sign upNon-simulation strategies for modeling biomedical engineering systems, including natural and synthetic systems at the cell and molecular level.BIM 118Microelectromechanical Systems
Sign upIntroduction to the theory and practice of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS), including fundamentals of micro-nanofabrication, microscale sensing and actuation, self assembly, microfluidics and lab-on-a-chip. Weekly hands-on laboratory sections are emphasized on implementation and utilization of MEMS technologies.BIM 120Introduction to Materials Science for Biomedical Engineers
Sign upHistorical perspective on materials usage in the body. Fundamental properties of materials and key considerations needed for material selection in the context of biomedical applications. Case studies of commonly used biomaterials spanning a range of material types.BIM 125Introduction to Design & Analysis of Experiments for BME
Sign upBasic concepts and methods in design of experiments with biomedical engineering applications. Statistical concepts and methods to study strategies to design efficient industrial experiments that can improve data quality and simplify data analysis.BIM 126Tissue Mechanics
Sign upStructural and mechanical properties of biological tissues, including bone, cartilage, ligaments, tendons, nerves, and skeletal muscle.BIM 140Protein Engineering
Sign upIntroduction to protein structure and function. Modern methods for designing, producing, and characterizing novel proteins and peptides. Design strategies, computer modeling, heterologous expression, in vitro mutagenesis. Protein crystallography, spectroscopic and calorimetric methods for characterization, and other techniques.BIM 140LProtein Engineering Laboratory
Sign upOptional hands-on laboratory for BIM 140. Students use the engineering design process to design, build, and test a solution to a practical problem in the field of protein engineering. Problems change each offering.BIM 141Cell & Tissue Mechanics
Sign upMechanical properties that govern blood flow in the microcirculation. Concepts in blood rheology and cell and tissue viscoelasticity, biophysical aspects of cell migration, adhesion, and motility.BIM 142Principles & Practices of Biomedical Imaging
Sign upBasic physics, engineering principles, and applications of biomedical imaging techniques including x-ray imaging, computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, ultrasound and nuclear imaging.BIM 143Biomolecular Systems Engineering: Synthetic Biology
Sign upIncludes analysis, design, construction and characterization of molecular systems. Process and biological parts standardization, computer aided design, gene synthesis, directed evolution, protein engineering, issues of human practice, biological safety, security, innovation, and ethics are covered.BIM 143LSynthetic Biology Laboratory
Sign upOptional hands-on laboratory for BIM 143. Students solve a practical problem in the field of synthetic biology by designing, building, and testing an appropriate solution or product. Problems change each offering.BIM 144Fundamentals of Biophotonics & Bioimaging
Sign upBiophotonics and bioimaging, emphasizing quantitative description of light propagation & light tissue interactions. Key technologies and illustrative applications in basic research, clinical diagnostics and therapy.BIM 145Immuno-Engineering
Sign upBasic immunology and immunological tools. Survey of current immuno-therapeutic strategies. Ongoing research efforts to engineer the immune system for positive diagnostic and therapeutic outcomes.BIM 151Mechanics of DNA
Sign upStructural, mechanical and dynamic properties of DNA. Topics include DNA structures and their mechanical properties, in vivo topological constraints on DNA, mechanical and thermodynamic equilibria, DNA dynamics, and their roles in normal and pathological biological processes.BIM 152Molecular Control of Biosystems
Sign upFundamentals of molecular biomedicine covering state-of-the-art methods for quantitative understanding of gene regulation and signal transduction networks at different levels of organization in health and disease. Topics include classic genetic systems, synthetic circuits, networks disrupted in disease and cancer.BIM 154Computational Genomics
Sign upBIM 161ABiomolecular Engineering
Sign upIntroduction to the basic concepts and techniques of biomolecular engineering such as recombinant DNA technology, protein engineering, and molecular diagnostics.BIM 161LBiomolecular Engineering Laboratory
Sign upIntroduction to the basic techniques in biomolecular engineering. Lectures, laboratory, and discussion sessions will cover basic techniques in DNA cloning, bacterial cell culture, gene regulation, protein expression, and data analysis.BIM 161SBiomolecular Engineering: Brief Course
Sign upBasic concepts and techniques in biomolecular analysis, recombinant DNA technology, and protein purification and analysis.BIM 162Introduction to the Biophysics of Molecules & Cells
Sign upIntroduction to fundamental physical mechanisms governing structure and function of bio-macromolecules. Emphasis on a quantitative understanding of the nano- to microscale biomechanics of interactions between and within individual molecules, as well as of their assemblies, in particular membranes.BIM 163Bioelectricity, Biomechanics, & Signaling Systems
Sign upFundamentals of bioelectricity in cells, the calcium signaling system, and mechanical force generation in muscle. Combination of lecture and projects to promote learning of important concepts in hands-on projects using neurons and muscle as microcosms.BIM 167Biomedical Fluid Mechanics
Sign upTheories of fluid mechanics, including Navier Stokes Equation and Conservation Laws, will be presented to understand dynamics of human circulatory systems. Fluid dynamics will be analyzed using partial differential equations.BIM 170Aspects of Medical Device Design & Manufacturing
Sign upSurvey of medical device design & impact on manufacturing operations. Introduction to medical device design process & product lifecycle. Principles of Design for Manufacturability, Design for Lean Manufacturing, and quality management systems.BIM 171Clinical Applications for Biomedical Device Design
Sign upClinical applications for biomedical devices with emphasis in the pathophysiology of common diseases as it relates to the biodesign process, biosensors principles, in vitro diagnostics, needs assessment, and regulatory considerations.BIM 172Introduction to Neuroengineering Lab
Sign upBasics of electroencephalography (EEG). Recording EEG signals from the brain. Machine learning tools for brain-computer interface (BCI) techniques. The power of neural signals to improve health outcomes.BIM 173Cell & Tissue Engineering
Sign upEngineering principles to direct cell and tissue behavior and formation. Cell sourcing, controlled delivery of macromolecules, transport within and around biomaterials, bioreactor design, tissue design criteria and outcomes assessment.BIM 174Microcontroller Applications Lab
Sign upHands-on design module to introduce microcontroller platforms, e.g., Arduino; programming microcontroller development board, use of external programs to support development of controlled systems, design of simple control systems.BIM 176Microfluidic Lab
Sign upTheory and practice of microfluidic and lab-on-a-chip (LOC) systems. Microfluidic theories, microfluidic functions and operations, microfluidic sensing, and organ-on-a-chip development. Laboratory sections emphasize implementation and utilization of modern microfluidic devices, interfacial phenomena, and digital and droplet microfluidics.BIM 202Cell & Molecular Biology for Engineers
Sign upModern topics in bioinformatics and proteomics.BIM 204Physiology for Bioengineers
Sign upBasic human physiology of the nervous, muscular, cardiovascular, respiratory, and renal systems and their interactions; Emphasis on the physical and engineering principles governing these systems, including control and transport processes, fluid dynamics, and electrochemistry.BIM 209Scientific Integrity for Biomedical Engineers
Sign upScientific integrity and ethics for biomedical engineers, with emphasis and discussion on mentoring, authorship and peer review, use of humans and animals in biomedical research, conflict of interest, intellectual property, genetic technology and scientific record keeping.BIM 210Introduction to Biomaterials
Sign upBIM 211Design of Polymeric Biomaterials & Biological Interfaces
Sign upDesign, selection and application of polymeric biomaterials. Integration of the principles of polymer science, surface science, materials science and biology.BIM 212Biomedical Heat & Mass Transport Processes
Sign upApplication of principles of heat and mass transfer to biomedical systems related to heat exchange between the biomedical system and its environment, mass transfer across cell membranes and the design and analysis of artificial human organs.BIM 213Principles & Applications of Biological Sensors
Sign upBiological sensors based on principles of electrochemical, optical and affinity detection. Methods for integration of sensing elements (e.g. enzymes) into biosensors and miniaturization of biosensors.BIM 214Continuum Biomechanics
Sign upContinuum mechanics relevant to bioengineering. Concepts in tensor calculus, kinematics, stress and strain, and constitutive theories of continua. Selected topics in bone, articular cartilage, blood/circulation, and cell biomechanics will illustrate the derivation of appropriate continuum mechanics theories.BIM 216Advanced topics in Cellular Engineering
Sign upAdvanced research strategies and technologies used in the study of immune function and inflammation. Static and dynamic measurements of stress, strain, and molecular scale forces in blood and vascular cells, as well as genetic approaches to the study of disease.BIM 217Mechanobiology in Health & Disease
Sign upPrinciples by which biomechanical forces affect cell and tissue function to impact human health and disease. Emphasis on cardiovascular system: structure and function, biofluid mechanics and mechanotransduction, disease mechanisms and research methods. Cartilage, bone and other systems; current topics discussed.BIM 221Drug Delivery Systems
Sign upFundamental engineering and biotechnology principles critical for the formulation and delivery of therapeutic agents, including peptide/protein drugs and small molecules.BIM 222Cytoskeletal Mechanics
Sign upCurrent topics in cytoskeletal mechanics including physical properties of the cytoskeleton and motor proteins, molecular force sensor and generator, cytoskeletal regulation of cell motility and adhesion.BIM 223Multibody Dynamics
Sign upBIM 225Spatial Kinematics & Robotics
Sign upSpatial kinematics, screw theory, spatial mechanisms analysis and synthesis, robot kinematics and dynamics, robot workspace, path planning, robot programming, real-time architecture and software implementation.BIM 228Skeletal Muscle Mechanics: Form, Function, Adaptability
Sign upBasic structure and function of skeletal muscle examined at the microscopic and macroscopic level. Muscle adaptation in response to aging, disease, injury, exercise, and disuse. Analytic models of muscle function are discussed.BIM 232Skeletal Tissue Mechanics
Sign upOverview of the mechanical properties of the various tissues in the musculoskeletal system, the relationship of these properties to anatomic and histologic structure, and the changes in these properties caused by aging and disuse.BIM 233Soft Tissue Mechanics
Sign upPresentation of structure and function of musculoskeletal soft tissues: cartilage, tendon, ligament, meniscus, and intervertebral disc. Instruction in engineering principals governing the mechanical behavior of these tissues: viscoelasticity, quasilinear viscoelasticity, and biphasic theory.BIM 239Advanced Finite Elements & Optimization
Sign upIntroduction to advanced finite elements and design optimization methods, with application to modeling of complex mechanical, aerospace and biomedical systems. Application of states of the art in finite elements in optimum design of components under realistic loading conditions and constraints.BIM 240Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics
Sign upDeformation of solids and the motion of fluids treated with state-of-the-art computational methods. Numerical treatment of nonlinear dynamics; classification of coupled problems; applications of finite element methods to mechanical, aeronautical, and biological systems.BIM 241Introduction to Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Sign upEquipment, methods, medical applications of MRI. Lectures review basic, advanced pulse sequences, image reconstruction, display and technology and how these are applied clinically. Lecture complements a more technical course. BIM 246 can be taken concurrently.BIM 242Introduction to Biomedical Imaging
Sign upBasic physics and engineering principles of image science. Emphasis on ionizing and nonionizing radiation production and interactions with the body and detectors. Major imaging systems: radiography, computed tomography, magnetic resonance, ultrasound, and optical microscopy.BIM 243Radiation Detectors for Biomedical Applications
Sign upRadiation detectors and sensors used for biomedical applications. Emphasis on radiation interactions, detection, measurement and use of radiation sensors for imaging. Operating principles of gas, semiconductor, and scintillation detectors.BIM 246Magnetic Resonance Technology
Sign upCovers MRI technology at an advanced level with emphasis on mathematical descriptions and problem solving. Topics include spin dynamics, signal generation, image reconstruction, pulse sequences, biophysical basis of T1, T2, RF, gradient coil design, signal to noise, image artifacts.BIM 251Medical Image Analysis
Sign upTechniques for assessing the performance of medical imaging systems. Principles of digital image formation and processing. Measurements that summarize diagnostic image quality and the performance of human observers viewing those images.BIM 252Computational Methods in Biomedical Imaging
Sign upAnalytic tomographic reconstruction from projections in 2D and 3D; model-based image reconstruction methods; maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods; applications to CT, PET, and SPECT.BIM 254Statistical Methods in Genomics
Sign upStatistical approaches to problems in computational molecular biology and genomics; formulation of questions via probabilistic modeling, statistical inference methods for parameter estimation, and interpretation of results to address biological questions; application to high-impact problems in functional genomics and molecular biology.BIM 255Nanoscale Imaging for Molecular Medicine
Sign upCurrent and emerging technologies to visualize biological structures and processes at size scales = 100 nanometers – and their application towards the advancement of molecular medicine. Technologies include superresolution optical microscopy, electron microscopy and tomography. Emphasis on quantitative imaging.BIM 257Fundamentals of Tissue Optics & Biomedical Applications
Sign upFundamentals of optical properties of tissue. Range of optical technologies and their applications to tissue characterization and diagnostics.BIM 258Advanced Biophotonics & Bioimaging
Sign upQuantitative basis for biophotonics and bioimaging, with an emphasis on the physical and mathematical description of optics, light propagation, and light-tissue interactions. Advantages and limitations of various optical imaging and sensing technologies. Illustrative applications in diagnostics, basic research, and therapy.BIM 262Cell & Molecular Biophysics for Bioengineers
Sign upIntroduction to fundamental mechanisms governing the structure, function, and assembly of bio-macromolecules. Emphasis is on a quantitative understanding of the nano-to-microscale interactions between and within individual molecules, as well as of their assemblies, in particular membranes.BIM 263Optical Microscopy Hands-On
Sign upInformed use of an optical research microscope. Analysis of digitized images. Optical image formation and its limitations. Laboratories on modern microscope usage and videomicroscopy techniques including optimization of recorded images and quantification of microscopic distances and displacements.BIM 264Synthetic & Systems Engineering of Cells
Sign upIntroduction to the design, engineering, and control of biological systems for biotechnological applications and biological studies.BIM 265NanoEngineering
Sign upInorganic and organic nanomaterials and their technological applications in medicine, imaging, energy harvesting, and computing. Fundamentals and applications of methods to fabricate, image, and analyze materials and devices that are structured at the nanometer scale.BIM 270Biochemical Systems Theory
Sign upSystems biology at the biochemical level. Mathematical and computational methods emphasizing nonlinear representation, dynamics, robustness, and optimization. Case studies of signal-transduction cascades, metabolic networks and regulatory mechanisms.BIM 271Gene Circuit Theory
Sign upAnalysis, design, and construction of gene circuits. Modeling strategies, elements of design, and methods for studying variations in design. Case studies involving prokaryotic gene circuits to illustrate natural selection, discovery of design principles, and construction of circuits for engineering objectives.BIM 272Tissue Engineering
Sign upBased on morphogenetic signals, responding stem cells and extracellular matrix scaffolding. Design and development of tissues for functional restoration of various organs damaged/lost due to cancer, disease and trauma. Fundamentals of morphogenetic signals, responding stem cells and extracellular matrix scaffolding.BIM 273Integrative Tissue Engineering & Technologies
Sign upEngineering principles to direct cell and tissue behavior and formation. Contents include controlled delivery of macromolecules, transport within and around biomaterials, examination of mechanical forces of engineered constructs, and current experimental techniques used in the field.BIM 281Acquisition & Analysis of Biomedical Signals
Sign upBasic concepts of digital signal recording and analysis; sampling; empirical modeling; Fourier analysis, random processes, spectral analysis, and correlation applied to biomedical signals.BIM 283Advanced Design of Experiments for Biomedical Engineers
Sign upProvides biomedical engineering graduate students with the tools to properly design experiments, collect and analyze data, and extract, communicate and act on information generated.BIM 284Mathematical Methods for Biomedical Engineers
Sign upTheoretical applications of linear systems, ordinary and partial differential equations, and probability theory and random processes that describe biological systems and instruments that measure them. Students will be introduced to numerical solution techniques in MATLAB.BIM 286Nuclear Imaging in Medicine & Biology
Sign upRadioactive decay, interaction of radiation with matter, radionuclide production, radiation detection, digital autoradiography, gamma camera imaging, single photon emission computed tomography, positron emission tomography and applications of these techniques in biology and medicine.
BIO5 courses
BIO 001Introductory Biology: Ecology & Evolution
Sign upFundamentals of ecology, evolution, and heredity. Processes that generate and maintain biological diversity, spanning genes to ecosystems.BIO 001LIntroductory Biology Lab: Ecology & Evolution
Sign upInquiry-based, hands-on field and lab experience in ecology, evolution, and heredity. Processes that generate and maintain biological diversity, spanning genes to ecosystems.BIO 002Introductory Biology: Molecules to Cells
Sign upMolecular basis of life, illustrating mechanistic underpinnings and evolution. Fundamentals of molecular biology, cellular biology, and metabolism.BIO 002LIntroductory Biology Lab: Molecules to Cells
Sign upInquiry-based, hands-on laboratory experience in molecular and cellular biology. Interactions and responses of cells to a changing environment.BIO 003Introductory Biology: Cells Through Organisms
Sign upHow multicellular organisms solve life’s problems. Basics of cell communication, cell organization into tissues and organs, and examples of how organisms across the tree of life address challenges such as sensing and responding to the abiotic and biotic environment, acquiring resources, maintaining homeostasis, preventing disease, and reproducing.
BIS24 courses
BIS 002AIntroduction to Biology: Essentials of Life on Earth
Sign upEssentials of life including sources and use of energy, information storage, responsiveness to natural selection and cellularity. Origin of life and influence of living things on the chemistry of the Earth. May be taught abroad.BIS 002BIntroduction to Biology: Principles of Ecology & Evolution
Sign upIntroduction to basic principles of ecology and evolutionary biology, focusing on the fundamental mechanisms that generate and maintain biological diversity across scales ranging from molecules and genes to global processes and patterns. May be taught abroad.BIS 002CIntroduction to Biology: Biodiversity & the Tree of Life
Sign upIntroduction to organismal diversity, using the phylogenetic tree of life as an organizing theme. Lectures and laboratories cover methods of phylogenetic reconstruction, current knowledge of the tree of life, and the evolution of life's most important and interesting innovations. May be taught abroad.BIS 002DIntroduction to Biology: Principles of Cell Biology & Physiology
Sign upIntroduction to the essential principles underlying cellular organization and function, how the properties of cells give rise to complex cellular behaviors that contribute to tissue organization/function and the physiological paradigms that govern complex life.BIS 010Everyday Biology
Sign upEveryday biological concepts using contemporary readings for non-scientists. Key topics include: personal genomics; food & health; climate & evolution; brain biology & the law. Innovative projects apply biological concepts to current events. For students not specializing in biology.BIS 011LBasic Life Sciences Laboratory
Sign upBasic laboratory skills in life sciences research, including microbiology, molecular biology, and genetics.BIS 015LIntroduction to Data Science for Biologists
Sign upIntroduction to data science with a focus on developing practical computational skills for biologists. Data management, transformation, visualization, and analysis using R. Fundamentals of the UNIX shell including navigation and automation. Computational resources for biologists with emphasis on the management of genomic data.BIS 020QModeling in Biology
Sign upIntroduction to the application of quantitative methods to biological problems. Use a mathematical software package to tackle problems drawn from all aspects of biology.BIS 023AGenome Hunters
Sign upHands-on, project-based introduction to genome-centric biology with specific focus on quantitative elements of associated experimental approaches. Measurement error and error estimation, experimental design, data analysis, model generation and fitting, and model-guided hypothesis generation and testing.BIS 023BGenome Hunters
Sign upHands-on, project-based introduction to modern computational and bioinformatics analyses using genome sequence data generated in BIS 023A. Genome sequence assembly and alignment, genome annotation, and genetic correlates of behavior.BIS 027ALinear Algebra with Applications to Biology
Sign upIntroduction to linear algebra with biological, medical, and bioengineering applications. Matrix algebra, vector spaces, orthogonality, determinants, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, principal component analysis, singular value decomposition, and linear transformations.BIS 027BDifferential Equations with Applications to Biology
Sign upSolutions of differential equations with biological, medical, and bioengineering applications. First and second order linear equations, phase plane analysis, nonlinear dynamics, Laplace transforms, and the diffusion equation. Computer labs cover mathematical and numerical techniques for modeling biological systems.BIS 101Genes & Gene Expression
Sign upNucleic acid structure and function; gene expression and its regulation; replication; transcription and translation; transmission genetics; molecular evolution. May be taught abroad.BIS 102Structure & Function of Biomolecules
Sign upStructure and function of macromolecules with emphasis on proteins, catalysis, enzyme kinetics, lipids, membranes, and proteins as machines. May be taught abroad.BIS 103Bioenergetics & Metabolism
Sign upFundamentals of the carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur cycles in nature, including key reactions of biomolecules such as carbohydrates, amino acids, lipids, and nucleotides, and of energy production and use in different types of organisms. Principles of metabolic regulation.BIS 104Cell Biology
Sign upMembrane receptors and signal transduction; cell trafficking; cell cycle; cell growth and division; extracellular matrix and cell-cell junctions; cell development; immune system.BIS 105Biomolecules & Metabolism
Sign upFundamentals of biochemical processes, with emphasis on protein structure and activity; energy metabolism; catabolism of sugars, amino acids, and lipids; and gluconeogenesis.BIS 107Probability & Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology
Sign upIntroduction to probability theory and stochastic processes with biological, medical, and bioengineering applications. Combinatorics, discrete and continuous random variables, Bayes' formula, conditional probability, Markov chains, Poisson processes, and Brownian motion.BIS 122Population Biology & Ecology
Sign upBiological and physical processes affecting plant and animal populations in the rich array of habitats at the Bodega Marine Laboratory ecological preserve. Emphasis on field experience, with complementing lectures to address population and community processes. See Bodega Marine Laboratory Program.BIS 134Systems Biology: From Biological Circuits to Biological Systems
Sign upApplying systems theory to understand the properties of biological networks in a variety of model organisms. Emphasis on both local biological circuits, and genome-scale biological networks. Topics include network motifs, robustness, modeling, emergent properties and integration of networks.BIS 180LGenomics Laboratory
Sign upComputational approaches to model and analyze biological information about genomes, transcriptomes, and proteomes. Topics include genome assembly and annotation, mRNA and small RNA profiling, proteomics, protein-DNA and protein-protein interactions, network analysis, and comparative genomics.BIS 181Comparative Genomics
Sign upComparison of genomes at the population and species level. Genomic techniques for mapping disease (and other) genes, reconstruction of evolutionary history and migration patterns, determination of gene function, prediction of organismal traits, and metagenomics: determination of community composition and function.BIS 183Functional Genomics
Sign upOverview of genomic methodologies and key biological findings obtained using genome-wide analyses. RNA profiling, small RNAs, epigenomics, chromatin immunoprecipitation, protein-DNA interactions, proteomics and network analysis.BIS 185LSystems & Synthetic Biology Lab
Sign upPrinciples & applications of systems and synthetic biology. Bistable & monostable switches, single cell sequencing, genetic circuits, design of biological parts and pathway modeling.
CHE89 courses
CHE 002AGeneral Chemistry
Sign upPeriodic table, stoichiometry, chemical equations, physical properties and kinetic theory of gases, chemical equilibrium, acids and bases. Laboratory experiments in stoichiometric relations, properties and collection of gases, atomic spectroscopy, introductory quantitative analysis and acids and bases.CHE 002AHHonors General Chemistry
Sign upLimited enrollment course with a more rigorous treatment of material covered in CHE 002A. Students completing CHE 002AH can continue with CHE 002BH or CHE 002B.CHE 002BGeneral Chemistry
Sign upContinuation of CHE 002A. Thermodynamics, atomic and molecular structure and chemical bonding, condensed phases and intermolecular forces, solubility. Laboratory experiments in thermochemistry, equilibria, and quantitative analysis using volumetric methods.CHE 002BHHonors General Chemistry
Sign upLimited enrollment course with a more rigorous treatment of material covered in CHE 002B. Students completing CHE 002BH can continue with CHE 002CH or CHE 002C.CHE 002CGeneral Chemistry
Sign upContinuation of CHE 002B. Kinetics, electrochemistry, spectroscopy, structure and bonding in transition metal compounds, application of principles to chemical reactions. Laboratory experiments in selected analytical methods and syntheses.CHE 002CHHonors General Chemistry
Sign upLimited enrollment course with a more rigorous treatment of material covered in CHE 002C.CHE 003AChemistry for Life Sciences: Determining Structure & Predicting Properties
Sign upIntegrated General and Organic Chemistry intended for majors in the life sciences. Core concepts of chemical composition, structure and properties. Includes phase changes, separation methods, composition, spectroscopy, atomic & molecular structure, periodicity, bonding, charge distribution, intermolecular forces, and physical properties.CHE 003BChemistry for Life Sciences: Predicting & Characterizing Chemical Change
Sign upContinuation of CHE 003A covering core concepts of characterization of chemical processes and predicting chemical changes. Includes modeling chemical reactions, understanding proportions/stoichiometry, tracking energy, activation energy, reaction kinetics, thermodynamics, and equilibrium.CHE 003CChemistry for Life Sciences: Controlling Processes & Synthetic Pathways
Sign upContinuation of CHE 003B covering core concepts of harnessing energy, controlling reaction extent, and organic chemistry synthetic pathways. Includes acids and bases, thermodynamics, chemical equilibria, organic chemistry terminology and mechanisms.CHE 004AGeneral Chemistry for the Physical Sciences & Engineering
Sign upGeneral chemistry course with a more rigorous treatment of material covered in CHE 002A, intended for students majoring in the physical sciences and engineering. Students completing CHE 004A can continue with CHE 004B or CHE 002B.CHE 004BGeneral Chemistry for the Physical Sciences & Engineering
Sign upGeneral chemistry course with a more rigorous treatment of material covered in CHE 002B, intended for students majoring in the physical sciences and engineering.CHE 004CGeneral Chemistry for the Physical Sciences & Engineering
Sign upGeneral chemistry course with a more rigorous treatment of material covered in CHE 002C, intended for students majoring in the physical sciences and engineering.CHE 008AOrganic Chemistry: Brief Course
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. With CHE 008B, an introduction to the nomenclature, structure, chemistry, and reaction mechanisms of organic compounds. Intended for students majoring in areas other than organic chemistry.CHE 008BOrganic Chemistry: Brief Course
Sign upLaboratory concerned primarily with organic laboratory techniques and the chemistry of the common classes of organic compounds. Lecture portion a continuation of CHE 008A.CHE 010Concept of Chemistry
Sign upSurvey of basic concepts and contemporary applications of chemistry. Designed for non-science majors and not as preparation for CHE 002A.CHE 100Environmental Water Chemistry
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Practical aspects of water chemistry in the environment, including thermodynamic relations, coordination chemistry, solubility calculations, redox reactions and rate laws. Computer modeling of the evolution in water chemistry from contact with minerals and gases.CHE 103AChemistry for Life Sciences: Determining Organic Structures & Properties
Sign upContinuation of PHE 003C. Core concepts of organic structure, nomenclature, functional groups, organic acids and bases, resonance and delocalization, aromaticity, intermolecular forces, three-dimensional structure and conformational analysis, spectroscopy.CHE 103BChemistry for Life Sciences: Predicting & Controlling Organic Pathways
Sign upContinuation of CHE 103A. Core concepts of functional group transformations, synthesis, mechanisms, sustainable chemistry, structure and function of biomolecules, organic reactions in biological systems, molecular design, detection, separation, and identification of organic molecules.CHE 104Forensic Applications of Analytical Chemistry
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Theory and application of standard methods of chemical analysis to evidentiary samples. Use and evaluation of results from screening tests, FTIR, GC and GCMS to various sample types encountered in forensics.CHE 105Analytical & Physical Chemical Methods
Sign upFundamental theory and laboratory techniques in; analytical and physical chemistry, errors and data analysis methods, basic electrical circuits in instruments, advanced solution equilibria, potentiometric analysis, chromatographic separations, UV-visible spectroscopy, lasers.CHE 107APhysical Chemistry for the Life Sciences
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Physical chemistry intended for majors in the life science area. Introductory development of classical and statistical thermodynamics including equilibrium processes and solutions of both non-electrolytes and electrolytes.CHE 107BPhysical Chemistry for the Life Sciences
Sign upContinuation of CHE 107A. Kinetic theory of gases and transport processes in liquids. Chemical kinetics, enzyme kinetics and theories of reaction rates. Introduction to quantum theory, atomic and molecular structure, and spectroscopy. Application to problems in the biological sciences.CHE 108Molecular Biochemistry
Sign upChemical principles and experimental methods applied to the biological sciences to understand the molecular structure and function of proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and membrane lipids.CHE 110APhysical Chemistry: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Introduction to the postulates and general principles of quantum mechanics. Approximations based on variational method and time independent perturbation theory.CHE 110BPhysical Chemistry: Properties of Atoms & Molecules
Sign upGroup theory. Application of quantum mechanics to polyatomic molecules and molecular spectroscopy. Intermolecular forces and the gas, liquid and solid states. Distributions, ensembles and partition functions. Transport properties.CHE 110CPhysical Chemistry: Thermodynamics, Equilibria & Kinetics
Sign upDevelopment and application of the general principles of thermodynamics and statistical thermodynamics. Chemical kinetics, rate laws for chemical reactions and reaction mechanisms.CHE 115Instrumental Analysis
Sign upIntermediate theory and laboratory techniques in analytical and physical chemistry. Advanced data analysis methods and goodness-of-fit criteria. Fourier-transform spectroscopic methods and instrumentation. Mass spectrometry. Electrochemistry. Liquid chromatography.CHE 118AOrganic Chemistry for Health & Life Sciences
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. The 118A-C series is for students planning professional school studies in health and life sciences.CHE 118BOrganic Chemistry for Health & Life Sciences
Sign upContinuation of CHE 118A, with emphasis on spectroscopy and the preparation and reactions of aromatic hydrocarbons, organometallic compounds, aldehydes and ketones.CHE 118COrganic Chemistry for Health & Life Sciences
Sign upContinuation of CHE 118B, with emphasis on the preparation, reactions and identification of carboxylic acids and their derivatives, alkyl and acyl amines, ß-dicarbonyl compounds, and various classes of naturally occurring, biologically important compounds.CHE 121Introduction to Molecular Structure & Spectra
Sign upModern theoretical and experimental methods used to study problems of molecular structure and bonding; emphasis on spectroscopic techniques.CHE 122Chemistry of Nanoparticles
Sign upChemical and physical aspects of inorganic nanoparticles. Topics include synthesis, structure, colloidal behavior, catalytic activity, size and shape dependency of physical properties, analytical methods and applications.CHE 124AInorganic Chemistry: Fundamentals
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Symmetry, molecular geometry and structure, molecular orbital theory of bonding (polyatomic molecules and transition metals), solid state chemistry, energetics and spectroscopy of inorganic compounds.CHE 124BInorganic Chemistry: Main Group Elements
Sign upSynthesis, structure and reactivity of inorganic and heteroorganic molecules containing the main group elements.CHE 124CInorganic Chemistry: D & F Block Elements
Sign upSynthesis, structure and reactivity of transition metal complexes, organometallic and bioinorganic chemistry, the lanthanides and actinides.CHE 124LLaboratory Methods in Inorganic Chemistry
Sign upThe preparation, purification and characterization of main group and transition metal inorganic and organometallic compounds.CHE 125Advanced Methods in Physical Chemistry
Sign upAdvanced theory and laboratory techniques in analytical and physical chemistry. Advanced spectroscopic methods. Thermodynamics. Kinetics. Chemical literature. Digital electronics and computer interfacing. Laboratory measurements and vacuum techniques.CHE 128AOrganic Chemistry
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Introduction to the basic concepts of organic chemistry with emphasis on stereochemistry and the chemistry of hydrocarbons. Designed primarily for majors in chemistry. Chemistry majors should enroll in CHE 129A concurrently. May be taught abroad.CHE 128BOrganic Chemistry
Sign upContinuation of CHE 128A with emphasis on the chemistry of alcohols, ethers, their sulfur analogs, and carbonyl compounds. Introduction to the application of spectroscopic methods to organic chemistry. Introduction to synthesis of moderately complex organic molecules. May be taught abroad.CHE 128COrganic Chemistry
Sign upContinuation of CHE 128B with emphasis on enolate condensations and the chemistry of amines, phenols, and sugars; selected biologically important compounds. May be taught abroad.CHE 129AOrganic Chemistry Laboratory
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Introduction to laboratory techniques of organic chemistry. Emphasis on methods used for separation and purification of organic compounds. May be taught abroad.CHE 129BOrganic Chemistry Laboratory
Sign upContinuation of CHE 129A. Emphasis on methods used for synthesis and isolation of organic compounds.CHE 129COrganic Chemistry Laboratory
Sign upcontinuation of PHE 129B.CHE 130APharmaceutical Chemistry
Sign upExamination of the design principles and experimental methods used in pharmaceutical and medicinal chemistry. May be taught abroad.CHE 130BPharmaceutical Chemistry
Sign upContinuation of CHE 130A with emphasis on case studies of various drugs and the use of computational methods in drug design. May be taught abroad.CHE 131Modern Methods of Organic Synthesis
Sign upIntroduction to modern synthetic methodology in organic chemistry with emphasis on retrosynthetic analysis, reaction mechanisms, and application to multistep syntheses of pharmaceuticals and natural products.CHE 135Advanced Bio-organic Chemistry Laboratory
Sign upSeparation, purification, identification and biological evaluation of organic compounds using modern methods of synthesis, computational chemistry and instrumentation. Emphasis on pharmaceutical and medicinal substances.CHE 145Good Quality Practices
Sign upPreparation for work in GQP laboratories in both research and industry. Context within GQP-Good Quality Practices (GMP Good Manufacturing Practice, GCP Good Clinical Practices). Lab practice in GQP skills.CHE 150Chemistry of Natural Products
Sign upChemistry of terpenes, steroids, acetogenins, and alkaloids: isolation, structure determination, biosynthesis, chemical transformations, and total synthesis. May be taught abroad.CHE 155Scientific Programming for Chemistry
Sign upChemical applications of computer programming with Python. Numpy, Scipy, Matplotlib libraries. Multidimensional arrays, data visualization, linear algebra routines. Force fields and molecular dynamics simulations. Numerical integration of differential equations with applications to chemical kinetics.CHE 168Chemical & Engineering Principles in Whisky & Fuel Alcohol Production
Sign upChemical & engineering principles underlying the manufacture of whisky & fuel alcohol. Biochemistry of malting. Assessment of grain modification & diastatic power, and of the phenol content of peated malt. Lautering as a problem of fluidized bed compaction. Fermentation and its assessment.CHE 201Chemical Uses of Symmetry & Group Theory
Sign upSymmetry elements and operations, point groups, representations of groups. Applications to molecular orbital theory, ligand field theory, molecular vibrations, and angular momentum. Crystallographic symmetry.CHE 204Mathematical Methods in Chemistry
Sign upIntroduction to mathematical and numerical methods in chemistry. Real and complex functions. Methods of integration. Differential equations. Linear algebra and matrices. Special functions. Integral transforms. Statistics.CHE 205Symmetry, Spectroscopy, & Structure
Sign upVibrational and rotational spectra; electronic spectra and photoelectron spectroscopy; magnetism; electron spin and nuclear quadrapole resonance spectroscopy; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; other spectroscopic methods.CHE 209Special Topics in Physical Chemistry
Sign upAdvanced topics in physical chemistry, biophysical chemistry or chemical physics chosen from areas of current research interest.CHE 210AQuantum Chemistry: Introduction & Stationary-State Properties
Sign upStationary-state quantum chemistry: postulates of quantum mechanics, simple solutions, central field problems and angular momenta, hydrogen atom, perturbation theory, variational theory, atoms and molecules.CHE 210BQuantum Chemistry: Time-Dependent Systems
Sign upMatrix mechanics and time-dependent quantum chemistry: matrix formulation of quantum mechanics, Heisenberg representation, time-dependent perturbation theory, selection rules, density matrices, and miscellaneous molecular properties.CHE 210CQuantum Chemistry: Molecular Spectroscopy
Sign upMolecular spectroscopy: Born-Oppenheimer approximation, rotational, vibrational and electronic spectroscopy, spin systems, and molecular photophysics.CHE 211AAdvanced Physical Chemistry: Statistical Thermodynamics
Sign upPrinciples and applications of statistical mechanics; ensemble theory; statistical thermodynamics of gases, solids, liquids, electrolyte solutions and polymers; chemical equilibrium.CHE 211BStatistical Mechanics
Sign upStatistical mechanics of nonequilibrium systems, including the rigorous kinetic theory of gases, continuum mechanics transport in dense fluids, stochastic processes, brownian motion and linear response theory.CHE 212Chemical Dynamics
Sign upIntroduction to modern concepts in chemical reaction dynamics for graduate students in chemistry. Emphasis will be placed on experimental techniques as well as emerging physical models for characterizing chemical reactivity at a microscopic level.CHE 215Theoretical & Computational Chemistry
Sign upMathematics of wide utility in chemistry, computational methods for guidance or alternative to experiment, and modern formulations of chemical theory. Emphasis will vary in successive years.CHE 216Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy
Sign upQuantum mechanics of spin and orbital angular momentum, nuclear magnetic resonance, theory of chemical shift and multiplet structures, electron spin resonance, theory of gtensor in organic and transition ions, spin Hamiltonians, nuclear quadrupolar resonance, spin relaxation processes.CHE 217X-Ray Structure Determination
Sign upIntroduction to x-ray structure determination; crystals, symmetry, diffraction geometry, sample preparation and handling, diffraction apparatus and data collection, methods of structure solution and refinement, presentation of results, text, tables and graphics, crystallographic literature.CHE 218Macromolecules: Physical Principles
Sign upRelationship of higher order macromolecular structure to subunit composition; equilibrium properties and macromolecular dynamics; physical chemical determination of macromolecular structure.CHE 219Spectroscopy of Organic Compounds
Sign upIdentification of organic compounds and investigation of stereochemical and reaction mechanism phenomena using spectroscopic methods–principally NMR, IR and MS.CHE 219LLaboratory in Spectroscopy of Organic Compounds
Sign upPractical application of NMR, IR and MS techniques for organic molecules.CHE 222Chemistry of Nanoparticles
Sign upChemical and physical aspects of inorganic nanoparticles, including synthesis, purification, reactivity, characterization, and applications for technology. Emphasis is on problems from the current literature.CHE 226Principles of Transition Metal Chemistry
Sign upElectronic structures, bonding, and reactivity of transition metal compounds.CHE 228ABio-inorganic Chemistry
Sign upDefines role of inorganic chemistry in the functioning of biological systems by identifying the functions of metal ions and main group compounds in biological systems and discussing the chemistry of model and isolated biological compounds. Offered every third year.CHE 228BMain Group Chemistry
Sign upSynthesis, physical properties, reactions and bonding of main group compounds. Discussions of concepts of electron deficiency, hypervalency, and non-classical bonding. Chemistry of the main group elements will be treated systematically. Offered every third year.CHE 228CSolid-State Chemistry
Sign upDesign and synthesis, structure and bonding of solid-state compounds; physical properties and characterization of solids; topics of current interest such as low-dimensional materials, inorganic polymers, materials for catalysis. Offered every third year.CHE 228DHomogeneous Catalysis
Sign upOverview of homogeneous catalysis and related methods, with emphasis on kinetics, mechanisms, and applications for organic synthesis. The related methods may include cluster, colloid, phase transfer, enzymatic, heterogeneous and polymer-supported catalysis. Offered every third year.CHE 228EMagnetochemistry
Sign upCovers the basic principles and concepts of magnetism, methods used for characterization of magnetic properties, as well as specific state-of-the-art magnetic materials and topics from the recent chemistry literature.CHE 231AOrganic Synthesis: Methods & Strategies
Sign upCurrent strategies and methods in synthetic organic chemistry. Focus on construction of carbon frameworks, control of relative and absolute stereochemistry and retrosynthetic strategies. Use of databases and molecular modeling software in multistep strategies.CHE 231BAdvanced Organic Synthesis
Sign upCurrent strategies and methods in synthetic organic chemistry. Continuation of CHE 231A. Organic synthesis of complex target molecules. Stereochemical considerations and asymmetric synthesis. Organometallics for selective transformations. Carbocyclic and heterocyclic ring formation.CHE 233Physical-Organic Chemistry
Sign upIntroduction to elementary concepts in physicalorganic chemistry including the application of simple numerical techniques in characterizing and modeling organic reactions.CHE 234Chemical & Molecular Neuroscience
Sign upBasic principles in chemistry and molecular biology applied to questions in neuroscience. Chemical and molecular tools driving innovative work in chemical and molecular biology.CHE 235Organometallic Chemistry in Organic Synthesis
Sign upCurrent trends in use of organometallics for organic synthesis; preparations, properties, applications, and limitations of organometallic reagents derived from transition and/or main group metals.CHE 236Chemistry of Natural Products
Sign upAdvanced treatment of chemistry of naturally occurring compounds isolated from a variety of sources. Topics will include isolation, structure determination, chemical transformations, total synthesis, biological activity, and biosynthesis. Biosynthetic origin will be used as a unifying theme.CHE 237Bio-Organic Chemistry
Sign upStructure and function of biomolecules; molecular recognition; enzyme reaction mechanisms; design of suicide substrates for enzymes; enzyme engineering; design of artificial enzymes and application of enzymes in organic synthesis.CHE 238Introduction to Chemical Biology
Sign upSynthesis of complex molecules in nature. Use of biosynthetic pathways in synthesis of new chemical entities. Applications of small molecules in chemical genetics and structural biology. Solving biological problems using synthetic biomolecules.CHE 240Advanced Analytical Chemistry
Sign upNumerical treatment of experimental data; thermodynamics of electrolyte and non-electrolyte solutions; complex equilibria in aqueous and non-aqueous solutions; potentiometry and specific ion electrodes; mass transfer in liquid solutions; fundamentals of separation science, including column, gas and liquid chromatography.CHE 241ASurface Analytical Chemistry
Sign upConcepts of surfaces and interfaces: physical properties, unique chemistry and electronic effects. Focus on gas-solid interfaces, with some discussion of liquid-solid interfaces.CHE 241BLaser & X-ray Spectroscopy
Sign upConcepts and mechanisms of light-matter interactions. Chemical applications of modern spectroscopic methods, including multiphoton spectroscopy, time-resolved laser and x-ray photolysis, and phase-contrast x-ray imaging.CHE 241CMass Spectrometry
Sign upMass spectrometry and related methods with emphasis on ionization methods, mass analyzers, and detectors. Related methods may include ion-molecule reactions, unimolecular dissociation of organic and bio-organic compounds, and applications in biological and environmental analysis.CHE 241DElectroanalytical Chemistry
Sign upElectroanalytical chemistry with consideration of mass transfer and electrode kinetics for polarizable electrodes. Current-potential curves for a variety of conditions, including both potentiostatic and galvanostatic control, and their application in chemical analysis.CHE 241E Microscopy & Imaging Techniques
Sign upIntroduction to modern microscopy and imaging techniques: scanning tunneling, atomic force, far-field optical, fluorescence, scanning near-field optical, and scanning electron microscopy. Application to nanoscience and analytical and bioanalytical chemistry. Some laboratory demonstrations.CHE 245Mechanistic Enzymology
Sign upAdvanced topics in chemical kinetics relevant to enzymes, enzyme kinetics, theory of enzyme catalysis, and the analysis of a selection of organic enzyme reaction mechanisms by the tools introduced in the first part of the course.
EBS32 courses
EBS 001Foundations of Biological Systems Engineering
Sign upIntroduction to engineering and the engineering design process with examples drawn from the field of biological systems engineering. Introduction to computer-aided design and mechanical fabrication of designs. Quarter-long group design project.EBS 075Properties of Materials in Biological Systems
Sign upProperties of typical biological materials; composition and structure with emphasis on the effects of physical and biochemical properties on design of engineered systems; interactions of biological materials with typical engineering materials.EBS 103Fluid Mechanics Fundamentals
Sign upFluid mechanics axioms, fluid statics, kinematics, velocity fields for one-dimensional incompressible flow and boundary layers, turbulent flow time averaging, potential flow, dimensional analysis, and macroscopic balances to solve a range of practical problems.EBS 114Principles of Field Machinery Design
Sign upTraction and stability of vehicles with wheels or tracks. Operating principles of field machines and basic mechanisms used in their design.EBS 115Forest Engineering
Sign upApplications of engineering principles to problems in forestry including those in forest regeneration, harvesting, residue utilization, and transportation.EBS 120Power Systems Design
Sign upDesign and performance of power devices and systems including combustion engines, electric generators and motors, fluid power systems, fuels, and emerging technologies. Selection of units for power matching and optimum performance.EBS 125Heat Transfer in Biological Systems
Sign upFundamentals of heat transfer with application to biological systems. Steady and transient heat transfer. Analysis and simulation of heat conduction, convection and radiation. Heat transfer operations.EBS 127Mass Transfer & Kinetics in Biological Systems
Sign upFundamentals of mass transfer and kinetics in biological systems. Molecular diffusion and convection. Thermodynamics and bioenergetics. Biological and chemical rate equations. Heterogeneous kinetics. Batch and continuous reaction processes. Mass transfer operations.EBS 128Biomechanics & Ergonomics
Sign upAnatomical, physiological, and biomechanical bases of physical ergonomics. Human motor capabilities, body mechanics, kinematics and anthropometry. Use of bioinstrumentation, industrial surveillance techniques and the NIOSH lifting guide. Cumulative trauma disorders. Static and dynamic biomechanical modeling.EBS 130Modeling of Dynamic Processes in Biological Systems
Sign upTechniques for modeling processes through mass & energy balance, rate equations, and equations of state. Computer problem solution of models. Example models include package design, evaporation, respiration heating, thermal processing of foods, and plant growth.EBS 135Bioenvironmental Engineering
Sign upBiological responses to environmental conditions. Principles and engineering design of environmental control systems. Overview of environmental pollution problems and legal restrictions for biological systems, introduction of environmental quality assessment techniques, and environmental pollution control technologies.EBS 144Groundwater Hydrology
Sign upEBS 145Irrigation & Drainage Systems
Sign upEngineering and scientific principles applied to the design of surface, sprinkle and micro irrigation systems and drainage systems within economic, biological, and environmental constraints. Interaction between irrigation and drainage.EBS 147Runoff, Erosion & Water Quality Management
Sign upPractical hydrology and runoff water quality management from disturbed watersheds. Development of hillslope and soils restoration concepts and practice, modeling and application.EBS 148Evapotranspiration Principles, Measurement & Modeling
Sign upEBS 161Kinetics & Bioreactor Design
Sign upProvide the basic principles of reactor design for bioprocess applications. Emphasizes the following topics: 1) kinetics and reactor engineering principles; 2) bio-reaction kinetics; and 3) bioreactor design.EBS 165Bioinstrumentation & Control
Sign upInstrumentation and control for biological production systems. Measurement system concepts, instrumentation and transducers for sensing physical and biological parameters, data acquisition and control.EBS 170AEngineering Design & Professional Responsibilities
Sign upEngineering design including professional responsibilities. Emphasis on project selection, data sources, specifications, human factors, biological materials, safety systems, and professionalism. Detailed design proposals developed for EBS 170B and EBS 170BL.EBS 170BLEngineering Projects: Design Laboratory
Sign upIndividual or group projects involving the design of devices, structures, or systems to solve specific engineering problems in biological systems.EBS 170CLEngineering Projects: Design Evaluation
Sign upIndividual or group projects involving the fabrication, assembly and testing of components, devices, structures, or systems designed to solve specific engineering problems in biological systems.EBS 175Rheology of Biological Materials
Sign upFluid and solid rheology, viscoelastic behavior of foods and other biological materials, and application of rheological properties to food and biological systems (i.e., pipeline design, extrusion, mixing, coating).EBS 216Energy Systems
Sign upTheory and application of energy systems. Systems analysis, energy conversion technologies, environmental considerations, economics and system optimization.EBS 228Occupational Musculoskeletal Disorders
Sign upEpidemiology and etiology of occupational musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs) with focus on low back and upper extremities disorders; anatomical and biomechanical functions of lower back and upper extremities; MSDs risk factors assessment and control; research opportunities related to MSDs.EBS 240Infiltration & Drainage
Sign upAspects of multi-phase flow in soils and their application to infiltration and immiscible displacement problems. Gas phase transport and entrapment during infiltration, and oil-water-gas displacement will be considered.EBS 241Precision Irrigation Systems & Management
Sign upAdvanced irrigation science and engineering for agricultural, horticultural, engineering, and hydrology graduate students. Precision irrigation techniques for application of water to meet specific requirements of individual plants or management units and maximum economic benefits of crop production.EBS 242Hydrology & Sustainability of Irrigated Lands
Sign upImpact of irrigated agricultural on groundwater depletion, surface water and groundwater quality, soil salinization, downstream ecosystems, and seawater intrusion. Exploration of efficient resource use, and policies adopted in California to enhance sustainability of irrigated crop production.EBS 243Water Resource Planning & Management
Sign upApplications of deterministic and stochastic mathematical programming techniques to water resource planning, analysis, design, and management. Water allocation, capacity expansion, and reservoir operation. Conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater. Water quality management. Irrigation planning and operation models.EBS 245Waste Management for Biological Production Systems
Sign upCharacterization of solid and liquid wastes from animal, crop, and food production systems. Study of methods and system design for handling, treatment, and disposal/utilization of these materials.EBS 265Design & Analysis of Engineering Experiments
Sign upEBS 268Polysaccharides Surface Interactions
Sign upStudy of fundamental surface science theories as applied to physical and chemical interactions of carbohydrates and polysaccharides.EBS 270Modeling & Analysis of Physical and Biological Processes & Systems
Sign upMathematical modeling of biological systems: model development; analytical and numerical solutions. Case studies from various specializations within Biological & Agricultural Engineering.EBS 275Physical Properties of Biological Materials
Sign upSelected topics on physical properties, such as mechanical, optical, rheological, and aerodynamic properties, as related to the design of harvesting, handling, sorting, and processing equipment. Techniques for measuring and recording physical properties of biological materials.
ECE1 course
ECE 161Applied Probability for Electrical & Computer Engineers
Sign upAxioms of probability, discrete and continuous random variables, expectation and moments. Transformation of random variables. Joint and conditional densities. Limit theorems, Markov and Poisson processes. Applications in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
ECH49 courses
ECH 001Design of Coffee–An Introduction to Chemical Engineering
Sign upNon-mathematical introduction to how chemical engineers think, illustrated by elucidation of the process of roasting and brewing coffee. Qualitative overview of the basic principles of engineering analysis and design. Corresponding experiments testing design choices on the sensory qualities of coffee.ECH 001YDesign of Coffee–An Introduction to Chemical Engineering
Sign upNon-mathematical introduction to how chemical engineers think, illustrated by elucidation of the process of roasting and brewing coffee. Qualitative overview of the basic principles of engineering analysis and design. Corresponding experiments testing design choices on the sensory qualities of coffee.ECH 005Introduction to Analysis & Design in Chemical Engineering
Sign upQuantitative introduction to the engineering principles of analysis and design. Applications of differential and integral calculus. Laboratory experiments using coffee to illustrate chemical engineering concepts and to conduct an engineering design competition.ECH 051Material Balances
Sign upApplication of the principle of conservation of mass to single and multicomponent systems in chemical process calculations. Studies of batch, semi-batch, and continuous processes involving mass transfer, phase change, and reaction stoichiometry.ECH 060Engineering Problem Solving Using MATLAB
Sign upProblem solving in chemical, biochemical and materials engineering using MATLAB. Programming styles, data structures, working with lists, functions and rules. Applications drawn from material balances, statistics, numerical methods, bioinformatics, transport phenomena, kinetics, and computational analysis.ECH 140Mathematical Methods in Biochemical & Chemical Engineering
Sign upMathematical methods for solving problems in chemical and biochemical engineering, with emphasis on transport phenomena. Fourier series and separation of variables. Sturm-Liouville eigenvalue problems. Similarity transformations. Tensor analysis. Finite difference methods for solving time-dependent diffusion problems.ECH 141Fluid Mechanics for Biochemical & Chemical Engineers
Sign upPrinciples and applications of fluid mechanics in chemical and biochemical engineering. Hydrostatics. Stress tensor and Newton's law of viscosity.ECH 142Heat Transfer for Biochemical & Chemical Engineers
Sign upConduction, convection, and radiation of thermal energy in applications to chemical and biochemical engineering. Derivation of thermal and mechanical energy equations. Thermal boundary layers. Macroscopic balances. Applications: heat transfer in tubes, channels, and integrated circuits, and analysis of heat exchangers.ECH 143Mass Transfer for Biochemical & Chemical Engineers
Sign upDerivation of species conservation equations describing convective and diffusive mass transfer. Fick's law and the Stefan-Maxwell constitutive equations. Mass transfer coefficients. Multicomponent mass transfer across gas/liquid interfaces. Applications include drying, heterogeneous chemical reactions, and membrane separations.ECH 144Rheology & Polymer Processing
Sign upDeformation in steady shear, unsteady shear, and elongational flows. Linear and non-linear viscoelastic constitutive models. The principle of material indifference and admissibility of constitutive equations. Introduction to the unit operations of polymer processing.ECH 145AChemical Engineering Thermodynamics Laboratory
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Laboratory experiments in chemical engineering thermodynamics.ECH 145BChemical Engineering Transport Lab
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Laboratory experiments in chemical engineering transport phenomena.ECH 148AChemical Kinetics & Reaction Engineering
Sign upIdeal chemical reactors. Rate laws and stoichiometry. Design and analysis of isothermal reactors with multiple reactions.ECH 148BChemical Kinetics & Reaction Engineering
Sign upDesign and analysis of non-isothermal reactors. Reactions in packed beds with pressure drop. Adsorption and heterogeneous catalysis. Transport limitations.ECH 152AChemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Sign upApplication of principles of thermodynamics to chemical processes.ECH 152BChemical Engineering Thermodynamics
Sign upContinuation of ECH 152A.ECH 155Chemical Engineering Kinetics & Reactor Design Laboratory
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Laboratory experiments in chemical kinetics, reactor design and process control.ECH 157Process Dynamics & Control
Sign upFundamentals of dynamics and modeling of chemical processes. Design and analysis of feedback control of chemical processes.ECH 158AProcess Economics & Green Design
Sign upSenior design experience in process and product creation and design with multiple realistic constraints. Cost accounting and capital investment estimation. Profitability analysis techniques. Green chemistry, health risk assessment and life cycle assessment concepts.ECH 158BSeparations & Unit Operations
Sign upSenior design experience with multiple realistic constraints. Heuristic and rigorous design of chemical process equipment. Separation by filtration, distillation and extraction. Synthesis of reactor and separation networks, heat and power integration.ECH 158CPlant Design Project
Sign upSenior design experience for chemical and biochemical processes. Impact of multiple realistic constraints. Design, costing and profitability analysis of complete plants. Use of computer-aided design techniques.ECH 160Fundamentals of Biomanufacturing
Sign upPrinciples of large scale bioreactor production of metabolites, enzymes, and recombinant proteins including the development of strains/cell lines, fermentor/bioreactor design, monitoring and operation, product recovery and purification, and biomanufacturing economics.ECH 161ABiochemical Engineering Fundamentals
Sign upBiokinetics; bioreactor design and operation; transport phenomena in bioreactors; microbial, plant, and animal cell cultures.ECH 161BBioseparations
Sign upProduct recovery and purification of biochemicals. Cell disruption, centrifugation, filtration, membrane separations, extraction, and chromatographic separation.ECH 161CBiotechnology Facility Design & Regulatory Compliance
Sign upDesign of biotechnology manufacturing facilities. Fermentation and purification equipment, and utility systems. Introduction to current good manufacturing practices, regulatory compliance, and documentation.ECH 161LBioprocess Engineering Laboratory
Sign upLaboratory experiments in the operation and analysis of bioreactors; determination of oxygen mass transfer coefficients in bioreactors and ion exchange chromatography.ECH 166Catalysis
Sign upPrinciples of catalysis based on an integration of principles of physical, organic, and inorganic chemistry and chemical kinetics and chemical reaction engineering. Catalysis in solution; catalysis by enzymes; catalysis in swellable polymers; catalysis in microscopic cages (zeolites); catalysis on surfaces.ECH 168Chemical & Engineering Principles in Whisky & Fuel Alcohol Production
Sign upChemical & engineering principles underlying the manufacture of whisky & fuel alcohol. Biochemistry of malting. Assessment of grain modification & diastatic power, and of the phenol content of peated malt. Lautering as a problem of fluidized bed compaction. Fermentation and its assessment.ECH 169The Design of Cocktails: Applied Thermodynamics & Transport Phenomena in Mixed Drinks
Sign upScientific and engineering principles underlying the preparation of mixed drinks. Thermodynamics and kinetics of ice crystallization; phase diagram of ethanol-water-ice mixtures; mass transfer of aromatics; solubility of sucrose and carbon dioxide; colloidal behavior of dispersed solids and emulsified oils.ECH 170Introduction to Colloid & Surface Phenomena
Sign upIntroduction to the behavior of surfaces and disperse systems. Fundamentals will be applied to the solution of practical problems in colloid science. Should be of value to engineers, chemists, biologists, soil scientists, and related disciplines.ECH 206Biochemical Engineering
Sign upInteraction of chemical engineering, biochemistry, and microbiology. Mathematical representations of microbial systems. Kinetics of growth, death, and metabolism. Continuous fermentation, agitation, mass transfer and scale-up in fermentation systems, product recovery, enzyme technology.ECH 226Enzyme Engineering
Sign upApplication of basic biochemical and engineering principles of practical enzymatic processes. Lectures cover large scale production and separation of enzymes, immobilized enzyme systems, enzyme related biotechnology, reactor design and optimization, and new application of enzymes in genetic engineering.ECH 245Micro- & Nano-Technology in Life Sciences
Sign upSurvey of biodevice design from engineering and biological perspectives; micro-/nano-fabrication techniques; surface science and mass transport; essential biological processes and models; proposal development skills on merging aforementioned themes.ECH 246Advanced Biochemical Engineering
Sign upAdvances in the field of biotechnology including genetic engineering, enzyme engineering, fermentation science, and renewable resources development. The important results of original research will be evaluated for understanding of the fundamental principles and for potential practical application.ECH 252Statistical Thermodynamics
Sign upA treatment of the statistical basis of thermodynamics;introduction to statistical mechanics; discussion of the laws of thermodynamics; application of thermodynamic relationships to phase and chemical reaction equilibrium; introduction to molecular simulations and the evaluation of thermodynamic properties from molecular simulations.ECH 253AAdvanced Fluid Mechanics
Sign upKinematics and basic principles of fluid flow. Principles of constitutive equations. Navier-Stokes equations for Newtonian fluids. Survey of rectilinear creeping flow, lubrication flow and boundary layer theory.ECH 253BAdvanced Heat Transport
Sign upFundamental energy postulates and derivation of microscopic and macroscopic energy equations. Mechanisms of conduction. Isotropic, thermoelastic and anisotropic materials solution problems using Greens functions and perturbation theory.ECH 253CAdvanced Mass Transfer
Sign upKinematics and basic conservation principles for multicomponent systems. Constitutive equations for momentum, heat and mass transfer, applications to binary and ternary systems. Details of diffusion with reaction, and the effects of concentration.ECH 254Colloid & Surface Phenomena
Sign upThermodynamics and rate processes at interfaces. These fundamental processes will be applied to determine the collective properties of thin films and membranes, self-assembled systems, liquid crystals and colloidal systems. Experimental techniques in surface analysis.ECH 256Chemical Kinetics & Reaction Engineering
Sign upAnalysis of the performance of chemical reactors and design of chemical reactors based on the principles of chemical kinetics and transport phenomena. Consideration of noncatalytic/catalytic reactions in single fluid phases and emphasis on reactions in multiphase mixtures, especially gas-solid reactors.ECH 259Advanced Engineering Mathematics
Sign upApplications of methods of applied mathematics to the analytical and numerical solution of linear and nonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations arising in the study of transport phenomena.ECH 261Molecular Modelling of Soft & Biological Matter
Sign upModern molecular simulation techniques with a focus on soft matter like polymers, biologically relevant systems, and glasses.ECH 262Transport Phenomena in Multiphase Systems
Sign upHeat, mass and momentum transfer in multiphase, multicomponent systems with special emphasis on transport processes in porous media. Derivation of the averaging theorem and application of the method of volume averaging to multicomponent, reacting systems.ECH 263Rheology & Mechanics of Non-Newtonian Fluids
Sign upMechanics of polymer solutions and suspension, especially the development of properly invariant constitutive equations. Topics include: viscometry, linear and nonlinear viscoelasticity, continuum mechanics, kinetic theory.ECH 265Emulsions, Microemulsions & Bilayers
Sign upThermodynamic and mechanical descriptions of surfactant-laden interfaces. Forces between and within interfaces. Physics of micelle and microemulsion formation. Structure and stability of emulsions. Properties of phospholipid bilayers, with emphasis on vesicles.ECH 267Advanced Process Control
Sign upAdvanced course in analysis and synthesis of linear multivariable systems. Emphasis on frequency domain techniques and applications to chemical processes. Topics include singular value analysis, internal model control, robust controller design methods as well as self-tuning control techniques.ECH 268Polysaccharides Surface Interactions
Sign upStudy of fundamental surface science theories as applied to physical and chemical interactions of carbohydrates and polysaccharides.ECH 269Cell & Molecular Biophysics for Bioengineers
Sign upIntroduction to fundamental mechanisms governing the structure, function, and assembly of bio-macromolecules. Emphasis is on a quantitative understanding of the nano-to-microscale interactions between and within individual molecules, as well as of their assemblies, in particular membranes.ECH 282Organic Electronic Materials, Processing & Devices
Sign upOrganic electronic materials synthesis and molecular design, methods for device fabrication, optical and electrical characteristics of the devices, discussion of the technology readiness, and a broad survey of methods used to characterize organic electronic materials and devices.
ECI114 courses
ECI 003Civil Infrastructure & Society
Sign upIntroduction to civil infrastructure and its relationship with society and the natural environment. Exposure to innovative research on civil engineering and environmental systems. Participation in laboratory experiments illustrative of the solution of representative but simplified engineering problems.ECI 016Spatial Data Analysis
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Computer-aided design and geographic information systems in civil engineering practice.ECI 040Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Sign upIntroduction to topics in environmental engineering; discussion on influence of literary work, art, and media on the evolution of environmental engineering practice, relevant laws, and regulations; presentations of historical case studies.ECI 100Introduction to Fluid Mechanics for Civil & Environmental Engineers
Sign upFluid flow in civil & environmental engineering, basis for design, buoyancy, hydrostatics, gravity dams, hydraulic modeling: similarity & scaling, conservation laws, flow in bends, nozzles, pipes, pumps, turbines, complimentary lab experiments.ECI 114Probabilistic Systems Analysis for Civil Engineers
Sign upProbabilistic concepts and models in engineering. Statistical analysis of engineering experimental and field data. Introduction to stochastic processes and models of engineering systems.ECI 115Computer Methods in Civil & Environmental Engineering
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Presentation, implementation and application of numerical algorithms and computer models for the solution of practical problems in Civil and Environmental Engineering.ECI 123Urban Systems & Sustainability
Sign upSystems-level approach of how to evaluate and then modify sustainability of urban systems based on interaction with natural environments. Topics include: definition/metrics of urban sustainability; system analyses of urban systems; enabling technology, policies, legislation; measures and modification of ecological footprints.ECI 125Building Energy Performance
Sign upMechanisms of energy consumption in buildings including end uses, thermal loads, ventilation, air infiltration, thermal energy distribution, and HVAC systems; energy performance simulation; methods and strategies of energy efficiency.ECI 130Structural Analysis
Sign upElastic structural analysis of determinate and indeterminate trusses, beams and frames. Plastic bending and limit analysis.ECI 131Matrix Structural Analysis
Sign upMatrix formulation and computer analysis of statically indeterminate structures. Stiffness and flexibility formulations for elastic structures. Finite element methods for elasticity and bending problems.ECI 132Structural Design: Metallic Elements
Sign upDesign of metallic beams, columns, and other members for various types of loading and boundary conditions; design of connections between members; member performance within structural systems.ECI 133Structure & Properties of Civil Engineering Materials
Sign upStructures & properties of common civil engineering materials including concrete, alloys, plastics, and wood. Mechanical behavior of elastic & plastic response to loading, thermal conductivity and resistivity, diffusivity, and deterioration mechanisms.ECI 134Structural Loads: Calculation & Modeling
Sign upStructural analysis process and model idealization; design codes, standards, and guidelines (e.g., IBC & ASCE 7); load paths for vertical and horizontal loads; load cases and load combinations; modeling of loads using finite element software; dead and live loads; snow loads; wind loads; climate change effects on snow and wind loads.ECI 135Structural Design: Concrete Elements
Sign upStrength design procedures for columns, rectangular beams, T-beams and beams of general cross-section. Building code requirements for bending, shear, axial load, combined stresses and bond. Introduction to prestressed concrete.ECI 136Building Design
Sign upDesign of a building structure for a specific need under the multiple constraints of safety, serviceability, cost and aesthetics.ECI 137Construction Principles & Project Management
Sign upProject management, with civil engineering construction and design applications, including project scope, schedule, resources, cost, quality, risk, and control. Construction industry overview. Interactions between planning, design, construction, operations. Construction operations analysis. Contract issues.ECI 138Earthquake Loads on Structures
Sign upDetermination of loads on structures due to earthquakes. Methods of estimating equivalent static lateral forces; response spectrum and time history analysis. Concepts of mass, damping and stiffness for typical structures. Design for inelastic behavior. Numerical solutions and Code requirements.ECI 139Advanced Structural Mechanics
Sign upReview of stress, strain, equilibrium, compatibility, and elastic material behavior. Plane stress and plane strain problems in elasticity; energy methods. Theories for unsymmetric bending, straight and curved beams. Beams on elastic foundations; stresses in plates and shells; elastic stability.ECI 140AEnvironmental Analysis of Aqueous Systems
Sign upIntroduction to "wet chemical" and instrumental techniques commonly used in the examination of water and wastewater and associated data analysis.ECI 140BChemical Principles for Environmental Engineers
Sign upAqueous chemistry; equilibrium relationships; carbonate system; thermodynamics; kinetics & rate laws; precipitation, adsorption, & volatilization phenomenon; oxidation & reduction reactions; pH, pE and predominance diagrams; organic chemicals.ECI 140CBiological Principles for Environmental Engineering
Sign upFundamental microbiology concepts for environmental engineers; provides background needed for the application of water and wastewater treatment, bioremediation, air pollution control and biotransformations in environmental engineered systems.ECI 140DWater & Wastewater Treatment System Design
Sign upEvaluation and design of water and wastewater treatment systems.ECI 141Engineering Hydraulics
Sign upNature of flow of a real fluid; flow in pipes; open channel flow; turbomachinery; fluid forces on objects: boundary layers, lift and drag.ECI 141LEngineering Hydraulics Laboratory
Sign upLaboratory experiments and demonstrations on flow measurements, sluice gates, hydraulic jump, flow characteristics, and centrifugal pumps.ECI 142Engineering Hydrology
Sign upThe hydrologic cycle. Evapotranspiration, interception, depression storage and infiltration. Streamflow analysis and modeling. Flood routing through channels and reservoirs. Frequency analysis of hydrologic variables. Precipitation analysis for hydrologic design. Hydrologic design.ECI 144Groundwater Systems Design
Sign upGroundwater occurrence, distribution, and movement; groundwater flow systems; radial flow to wells and aquifer testing; aquifer management; groundwater contamination; solute transport by groundwater; fate and transport of subsurface contaminants. Groundwater supply and transport modeling.ECI 144LGroundwater Systems Design Laboratory
Sign upComputer modeling of groundwater flow under regional gradient, well injection/withdrawal, and natural and engineered boundary conditions. Use of Groundwater Vistas computer program.ECI 145Hydraulic Structure Design
Sign upProject-based course on the design of an integrated urban drainage system with focus on consideration of design alternatives, multiple realistic constraints, quantification of uncertainty, codes and standards, technical drawing and cost analysis.ECI 146Water Resources Simulation
Sign upComputer simulation techniques in the analysis, design and operation of surface water systems; modeling concepts and practices with application to surface runoff; water quality in rivers and streams and dispersion of contaminants in water bodies.ECI 148AWater Quality Management
Sign upBasic concepts of water quality measurements and regulations. Introduction to physical, biological and chemical processes in natural waters. Fundamentals of mass balances in water and wastewater treatment.ECI 149Air Pollution
Sign upPhysical and technical aspects of air pollution. Factors that determine local, regional, and global air quality; climate change; and physical and chemical properties of pollutants.ECI 150Air Pollution Control System Design
Sign upDesign and evaluation of air pollution control devices and systems.ECI 153Deterministic Optimization & Design
Sign upOperations research. Optimization techniques such as linear programming, dynamic programming, and non-linear programming. Applications in civil engineering disciplines, including multiple realistic constraints, through computer-based course projects.ECI 155Water Resources Engineering Planning
Sign upBasic engineering planning concepts; role of engineering, economic, environmental and social information and analysis; institutional, political and legal aspects. Case studies and computer models illustrate the planning of water resource systems.ECI 161Transportation System Operations
Sign upPrinciples of transportation system operations; traffic characteristics and methods of measurement; models of transportation operations and congestion applied to urban streets and freeways.ECI 163Energy & Environmental Aspects of Transportation
Sign upEngineering, economic, and systems planning concepts. Analysis and evaluation of energy, air quality and selected environmental attributes of transportation technologies. Strategies for reducing pollution and petroleum consumption in light of institutional and political constraints. Evaluation of vehicle emission models.ECI 165Transportation Policy
Sign upTransportation and associated environmental problems confronting urban areas, and prospective technological and institutional solutions. Draws upon concepts and methods from economics, engineering, political science and environmental studies.ECI 171Soil Mechanics
Sign upSoil formations, mass-volume relationships, soil classification, effective stress, soil-water-void relationships, compaction, seepage, capillarity, compressibility, consolidation, strength, states of stress and failure, lateral earth pressures, and slope stability.ECI 171LSoil Mechanics Laboratory
Sign upLaboratory studies utilizing standard testing methods to determine physical, mechanical and hydraulic properties of soil and demonstration of basic principles of soil behavior.ECI 173Foundation Design
Sign upFoundation analysis and design, including site characterization, evaluation of shallow and deep foundation alternatives, evaluation of bearing capacity and settlements, design of retaining structures, and case-based design experiences.ECI 175Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
Sign upTectonics, faults, site response, and probabilistic ground motion prediction equations. Cyclic loading and liquefaction of soil elements and layers. Empirical procedures and field tests for evaluation of triggering and consequences, of liquefaction.ECI 179Pavement Engineering
Sign upPavement types (rigid, flexible, unsurfaced, rail), their applications (roads, airfields, ports, rail) and distress mechanisms. Materials, traffic and environment characterization. Empirical and mechanistic-empirical design procedures. Maintenance, rehabilitation and reconstruction; construction quality; asphalt concrete mix design.ECI 201Introduction to Theory of Elasticity
Sign upFundamental equations of elasticity in three dimensions; plane stress and plane strain; flexture and torsion of bars of various shapes. Introduction to variational and approximate methods.ECI 203Inelastic Behavior of Solids
Sign upFundamentals of theories of plasticity, viscoelasticity and viscoplasticity for solids. Macroscopic constitutive modelling for engineering materials, e.g., metals, polymers, soils, etc., and microscopic motivation.ECI 205Continuum Mechanics
Sign upTensor formulation of the field equations for continuum mechanics, including large deformation effects. Invariance and symmetry requirements. Introduction to nonlinear thermoelasticity and thermodynamics. Solution of three-dimensional problems. Selected topics.ECI 206Fracture Mechanics
Sign upLinear and nonlinear fracture mechanics, stress analysis, energy concepts, brittle fracture criteria, path independent integrals, Dugdale-Barenblatt model, general cohesive zone models, ductile fracture criteria, crack tip fields for stationary and propagating cracks, fatigue. Application of numerical methods for fracture mechanics.ECI 211AAdvanced Matrix Structural Analysis
Sign upMatrix structural analysis for automated analysis of structures using computers. Application of matrix analysis techniques to complex problems in structural engineering arising from soil-structure interactions, three-dimensional effects, and nonlinear material response.ECI 211BNonlinear Structural Analysis
Sign upGeometric and material nonlinear response of framed structures, and methods for computational simulation of such response. Applications of these concepts and techniques to structural design within modern performance assessment frameworks and software platforms.ECI 212AFinite Element Procedures in Applied Mechanics
Sign upWeighted-residual and Rayleigh-Ritz methods. Weak/variational formulation and development of discrete equations using finite element approximations. Application to one- and two-dimensional problems (heat conduction).ECI 212BFinite Elements: Application to Linear & Non-Linear Structural Mechanics Problems
Sign upApplication to linear and nonlinear structural mechanics problems. Linear elasticity, weak form, and finite element approximation. Incompressible media problems. Non-linear problems with material nonlinearity.ECI 213Structural Dynamics
Sign upAnalysis of structures subjected to dynamic loading; single and multi-degree of freedom systems; response spectrum analysis; numerical methods for analysis of linear systems.ECI 214Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Analysis & Design Ground Motions
Sign upProbabilistic seismic hazard analysis for use in developing design spectra and for seismic risk analyses, including the development of earthquake ground motion time series for use in dynamic analyses of structures.ECI 216Meshfree Methods & Partition of Unity Finite Elements
Sign upAdvanced discretization techniques such as meshfree methods and partition of unity finite elements for the Galerkin solution of boundary-value problems in solid and structural mechanics. Application of meshfree and extended finite element methods in computational fracture.ECI 221Theory of Plates & Introduction to Shells
Sign upDevelopment of classical and refined plate theories. Application to isotropic, orthotropic and composite plates. Solutions for rectangular and circular plates. Membrane theory for axisymmetric shells and bending of circular shells.ECI 223Advanced Dynamics, Signal Processing, & Smart Structures Technology
Sign upECI 224Structural Reliability Analysis
Sign upECI 225Random Vibrations
Sign upECI 232Advanced Topics in Concrete Structures
Sign upDuctility of reinforced concrete; strength of two-way slabs; modified compression field theory.ECI 233Advanced Design of Steel Structures
Sign upReview of Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD); steel-plate girder design; plastic design of indeterminate systems; moment frames and bracing systems; connection design; seismic design of steel structures; vibration of flooring systems; steel-concrete composite design.ECI 234Prestressed Concrete
Sign upSurvey of methods and applications; prestressing materials and systems; prestress losses; flexural design; design for shear and torsion; deflection computation and control; continuous beams and indeterminate structures; floor systems; partial prestressing; design of compression members; strut-and-tie models.ECI 235Cement Composites
Sign upECI 236Design of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composite Structures
Sign upBasics of mechanics and design of polymer matrix composites: composite classification, manufacturing process, micromechanical property determination, classical lamination theory, strength theories, first-ply-failure, test methods, design practice, strengthening and retrofitting of existing reinforced concrete structures.ECI 237Bridge Design
Sign upBridge types, behavior and construction characteristics; design philosophy, details according to Caltrans and American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials codes, principles; seismic design and retrofit of concrete bridges; modern bridges using advanced fiber reinforced polymer composites; fieldtrip required.ECI 238Performance-Based Seismic Engineering
Sign upModern seismic design; performance-based seismic design; seismic hazard; seismic demands: linear and nonlinear procedures; performance assessment: deterministic and probabilistic procedure; review of FEMA-350, FEMA-356, ATC-40 and other performance-based guidelines.ECI 239Design of Materials & Systems for Sustainability
Sign upEffects on environmental impacts from materials selection and design in the built environment. Material mechanics, design constraints, and life cycle assessment in the development of “greener” materials and systems. Role of materials in the environmental impacts of buildings, infrastructure, and other systems.ECI 240Water Quality
Sign upQuality requirements for beneficial uses of water. Hydrologic cycle of quality. Hydromechanics in relation to quality of surface and groundwaters; transport and fate of waterborne pollutants. Heat budget for surface waters; predictive methods; introduction to water quality modeling.ECI 241Environmental Reactive Chemical Transport Modeling
Sign upModeling of reactive chemical transport in air and water including kinetic reactions, equilibrium reactions, and phase partitioning. Emphasis on numerical solution schemes and programming techniques to provide deeper insight into model performance and limitations.ECI 242Air Quality
Sign upFactors determining air quality. Effects of air pollutants. Physical and chemical fundamentals of atmospheric transport and reaction. Introduction to dispersion modeling.ECI 243AWater & Waste Treatment
Sign upCharacteristics of water and airborne wastes; treatment processes and process kinetics; treatment system design.ECI 243BWater & Waste Treatment
Sign upContinuation of ECI 243A. Aeration, thickening, biological processes, design of biological treatment systems.ECI 243LPilot Plant Laboratory
Sign upLaboratory investigation of physical, chemical, and biological processes for water and wastewater treatment.ECI 244ALife Cycle Assessment for Sustainable Engineering
Sign upLife cycle assessment methodology. Emphasis on applications to infrastructure and energy systems. Life cycle design, life cycle cost methods, other tools from industrial ecology, and links to policy.ECI 245AApplied Environmental Chemistry: Inorganic
Sign upChemistry of natural and polluted waters. Topics include chemical, kinetic and equilibrium principles, redox reactions, gas solution and solid-solution equilibria, thermodynamics, carbonate systems, coordination chemistry, interfacial phenomena.ECI 245BApplied Environmental Chemistry: Organic
Sign upTransport and transformation of organic chemicals in the environment. Topics include application of thermodynamics to predict solubility and activity coefficients; distribution of organic chemicals between the aqueous phase and air, solvent, or solid phases; chemical, photochemical and biological transformation reactions.ECI 246NUnderstanding Climate Change: Causes & Consequences
Sign upDiverse physical processes that govern climate and drive climate change. Observational, experimental and modeling techniques and methods used in the development of our scientific understanding of the Earth system.ECI 247Aerosols
Sign upBehavior of airborne particles including particle formation, modification, and removal processes.ECI 247LAerosols Laboratory
Sign upMethods of generation and characterization of aerosols. Detailed topics may include flow rate measurement, aerosol generation, aerosol collection, ions measurement, metals measurement, and carbon measurement.ECI 249Probabilistic Design & Optimization
Sign upDesign by optimization for probabilistic systems, decision theory, the value of information, probabilistic linear programming, probabilistic dynamic programming, nonlinear probabilistic optimization. Applications in civil engineering design, project evaluation, and risk management.ECI 250Civil Infrastructure System Optimization & Identification
Sign upApplied mathematics with a focus on modeling, identifying, and controlling dynamic, stochastic, and underdetermined systems. Applications in transportation networks, water resource planning, and other civil infrastructure systems.ECI 251Transportation Demand Analysis
Sign upProcedures used in urban travel demand forecasting. Principles and assumptions of model components (trip generation, trip distribution, model split). New methods of estimating travel demand. Computer exercises using empirical data to calibrate models and forecast travel demand.ECI 253Dynamic Programming & Multistage Decision Processes
Sign upOperations research. Optimization techniques with a focus on dynamic programming in treating deterministic, stochastic, and adaptive multistage decision processes. Brief review of linear programming and non-linear programming. Applications in transportation networks and other civil infrastructure systems.ECI 254Exploring Data from Built Environment Using R
Sign upIntroduction to modern data science, specifically data acquisition, exploratory data analysis, visualization, and beginning data analysis using R. Emphasizes computational reasoning and working with tabular and non-standard data. Focus will be on data generated in the built environment.ECI 256Urban Traffic Management & Control
Sign upBasic concepts, models, and methods related to the branch of traffic science that deals with the movement of vehicles on a road network, including travel speed, travel time, congestion concepts, car-following and hydrodynamic traffic models.ECI 257Flow in Transportation Networks
Sign upElements of graph theory, a survey of pertinent optimization techniques, extremal principles in network flow problems, deterministic equilibrium assignment, stochastic equilibrium assignment, extensions of equilibrium assignments and dynamic transportation network assignment.ECI 259Asphalt & Asphalt Mixes
Sign upAsphalts and asphalt mix types and their use in civil engineering structures, with primary emphasis on pavements. Asphalt, aggregate properties and effects on mix properties. Design, construction, recycling. Recent developments and research.ECI 260Sediment Transport
Sign upSediment transport in hydrologic systems. Process-oriented course which will emphasize how sediment moves and the physical processes that affect sediment transport. Field trip.ECI 261Colloids in Soil & Water
Sign upColloid occurrence, properties, behavior in different environments, and transport mechanisms in water and soils. Emphasis on their role in water contamination.ECI 263Evolutionary Algorithms
Sign upEngineering systems design via approximate optimization of simulation models. Local vs. global search. Genetic algorithms, evolutionary strategies, genetic programming. Multi-objective methods. Parameter sensitivity and convergence assessment. Surrogate modeling.ECI 264ATransport, Mixing & Water Quality in River & Lakes
Sign upPrincipal causes of mixing and transport in rivers, lakes and reservoirs, and their impacts on water quality. Case studies of specific lakes and rivers.ECI 264BTransport, Mixing & Water Quality in Estuaries & Wetlands
Sign upPrincipal causes of mixing and transport in estuaries and wetlands, and their impacts on water quality. Topics include advection/diffusion; tides; transverse mixing; longitudinal dispersion; sediment transport; nutrient cycling; computer modeling of estuaries. Case studies of specific systems.ECI 265Stochastic Hydrology & Hydraulics
Sign upECI 266Applied Stochastic Methods in Engineering
Sign upStochastic processes classification; Gaussian random fields; stochastic calculus in mean square; Ito and Stratonovich stochastic differential equations; Fokker-Planck equation; stochastic differential equations with random coefficients.ECI 267Water Resource Management
Sign upEngineering, institutional, economic, and social basis for managing local and regional water resources. Examples in the context of California's water development and management. Uses of computer modeling to improve water management.ECI 268Infrastructure Economics
Sign upEconomics applied to infrastructure engineering planning, operations, maintenance, and management problems; microeconomic and macroeconomic theories; benefit-cost analysis; effect of uncertainty; optimization economics; non-classical economics; public finance.ECI 269Transportation-Air Quality: Theory & Practice
Sign upHealth and regulatory aspects of airborne pollutants. Principles of modeling vehicle emissions. Conformity issues and the regulatory framework. Regional and micro-scale modeling.ECI 271Inverse Problems
Sign upInverse calibration of distributed parameter models, using data representing model outputs. Forward and inverse mappings, stability, uniqueness, identifiability. Optimization formulation of inverse problems, maximum likelihood and other objective functions, indirect and direct approaches, solution by UCODE in hands-on project format.ECI 273Water Resources Systems Engineering
Sign upPlanning and management of water resource systems. Deterministic and stochastic simulation and optimization techniques. Capacity design and operation of reservoir systems for water supply, hydropower, flood control, and environmental objectives.ECI 275Hydrologic Time-Series Analysis
Sign upApplication of statistical methods for analysis and modeling of hydrologic series. Statistical simulation and prediction of hydrologic sequences using time series methodology.ECI 276Watershed Hydrology
Sign upAnalysis and mathematical modeling of hydrologic processes taking place in a watershed. Precipitation analysis and modeling. Theory of overland flow and its kinematic wave approximation.Analysis and modeling of saturated and unsaturated subsurface flow processes taking place on a hill slope.ECI 277AComputational River Mechanics I
Sign upUnsteady open channel flows, computation of water surface profiles, shallow water equations, St. Venant equations, method of characteristics, finite difference methods, stability and accuracy of explicit and implicit schemes, flood routing in simple and compound channels, advection of plumes.ECI 277BComputational River Mechanics II
Sign upOpen channel flows, physical aspects of river mechanics, formulation of depth-averaged equations, boundary conditions, coordinates transformation and grid generation, finite-difference solution techniques, applications to two-dimensional momentum and pollutant transport in rivers.ECI 277CTurbulence & Mixing Processes
Sign upNature of turbulent flows, conservation equations, momentum, heat and mass transport in free and wall-bounded flows, body forces and mixing, roughness effects, turbulence modeling and simulation.ECI 278Hydrodynamics
Sign upPerturbation methods. Basic water waves. Governing equations for fluid motion on a rotating earth. Rotation effects, vorticity dynamics, Ekman layer. Stratification effects, internal waves and turbulent mixing. Combined effects.ECI 279Advanced Mechanics of Fluids
Sign upRotational flows. Navier-Stokes equations and solutions for laminar flow; boundary layer equations and solution techniques. Nature of turbulence. Reynolds equations. Introduction to turbulence modeling.ECI 280ANonlinear Finite Elements for Elastic-Plastic Problems
Sign upState of the art finite element methods and tools for elasticplastic problems, including computational techniques based on the finite element method and the theory of elastoplasticity.ECI 280BNonlinear Dynamic Finite Elements
Sign upState of the art computational methods and tools for analyzing linear and nonlinear dynamics problems.ECI 281AAdvanced Soil Mechanics
Sign upConsolidation and secondary compression. Preloading and wick drains. Seepage and seepage pressures. Filtration, drainage, and dewatering. Shear strength: friction, cohesion, dilatancy and critical states.ECI 281BAdvanced Soil Mechanics
Sign upSite investigation and soil characterization within the context of slope stability analysis.ECI 282Pavement Design & Rehabilitation
Sign upAdvanced pavement design and structural/functional condition evaluation for concrete and asphalt pavements. Highways, airfields, port facilities; new facilities, rehabilitation, reconstruction. Mechanistic-empirical procedures, materials, climate and traffic characterization.ECI 283Physico-Chemical Aspects of Soil Behavior
Sign upStudy of the geotechnical behavior of soils considering formation, transport, mineralogy, soil-fluid-electrolyte systems, surface tension, particle mechanics, shape, fabric, and structure. Laboratories demonstrate effects of fundamental interparticle forces (contact, Van Der Waals, capillarity and chemical).ECI 284Theoretical Geomechanics
Sign upElasticity, plasticity, micromechanics, coupled behavior and large deformations for geomaterials. Prediction of stress-strain-volume change behavior of geomaterials. Monotonic and cyclic loading, anisotropy, bifurcation of deformation.ECI 286Advanced Foundation Design
Sign upDesign and analysis of pile and pier foundations, including seismic effects; deep excavation systems; tie-back, nailing, and anchor systems; coffer dams; loads on buried conduits; ground modification techniques; and other related topics.ECI 287Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering
Sign upCharacteristics and estimation of earthquake ground motions; wave propagation and local site response; liquefaction potential and remediation; residual strength and stability considerations; ground deformations; dynamic soil-structure interaction.ECI 288Earth & Rockfill Dams
Sign upSite selection; design considerations; layout; seismic effects including considerations of fault movements; construction; environmental considerations, instrumentation; maintenance remediation and retrofit of existing dams.
ECN87 courses
ECN 001APrinciples of Microeconomics
Sign upECN 001A & ECN 001B may be taken in either order. Analysis of the allocation of resources and the distribution of income through a price system; competition and monopoly; the role of public policy; comparative economic systems.ECN 001AVPrinciples of Microeconomics
Sign upAnalysis of the allocation of resources and the distribution of income through a price system; competition and monopoly; the role of public policy; comparative economic systems.ECN 001AYPrinciples of Microeconomics
Sign upAnalysis of the allocation of resources and the distribution of income through a price system; competition and monopoly; the role of public policy; comparative economic systems.ECN 001BPrinciples of Macroeconomics
Sign upECN 001A & ECN 001B may be taken in either order. Analysis of the economy as a whole; determinants of the level of income, employment and prices; money and banking, economic fluctuations, international trade, economic development; the role of public policy.ECN 001BVPrinciples of Macroeconomics
Sign upAnalysis of the economy as a whole; determinants of the level of income, employment and prices; money and banking, economic fluctuations, international trade, economic development; the role of public policy.ECN 100AIntermediate Micro Theory: Consumer & Producer Theory
Sign upConsumer and producer theory. Equilibrium and welfare analysis. Topics include competitive markets, consumer and producer surplus at an intermediate level.ECN 100BIntermediate Micro Theory: Imperfect Competition & Market Failure
Sign upImperfect competition and market failure. Topics include exchange, monopoly, game theory, uncertainty, asymmetric information, and public goods.ECN 101Intermediate Macro Theory
Sign upTheory of income, employment and prices under static and dynamic conditions, and long term growth.ECN 102Analysis of Economic Data
Sign upAnalysis of economic data to investigate key relationships emphasized in introductory micro and macro economics. Obtaining, transforming, displaying data; statistical analysis of economic data; basic univariate and multivariate regression analysis.ECN 103Economics of Uncertainty & Information
Sign upOptimal decisions under uncertainty, expected utility theory, economics of insurance, asymmetric information, signalling in the job market, incentives and Principal-Agent theory, optimal search strategies and the reservation price principle.ECN 106Decision Making
Sign upDescriptive and normative analysis of individual decision making, with applications to personal, professional, financial, and public policy decisions. Emphasis on decision making under uncertainty and over time. Heuristics and biases in the psychology of decisions; overcoming decision traps.ECN 107Neuroeconomics/Reinforcement Learning & Decision Making
Sign upTheoretical and empirical approaches to neuroeconomics (neuroscience of decision making) from psychology, neuroscience, economics, and computer science. Neuroscience of judgment and decision making, behavioral economics, and reinforcement learning.ECN 110AWorld Economic History Before the Industrial Revolution
Sign upDevelopment and application of analytical models to explain the nature and functioning of economies before the Industrial Revolution. Examples will be drawn from a variety of societies, including England, China, Polynesia, and Pre-Columbian America.ECN 110BWorld Economic History Since the Industrial Revolution
Sign upDevelopment and application of analytical models to explain the nature and functioning of economies since the Industrial Revolution. Examples will be drawn from a variety of societies, including England, China, Germany, and India.ECN 111AEconomic History
Sign upSurvey of economic change in the United States from Colonial times to 1865; reference to other regions in the Western Hemisphere.ECN 111BEconomics History
Sign upSurvey of economic change in the United States from 1865 to the post World War II era.ECN 115AEconomic Development
Sign upMajor issues encountered in emerging from international poverty, including problems of growth and structural change, human welfare, population growth and health, labor markets and internal migration. Important issues of policy concerning international trade and industrialization.ECN 115BEconomic Development
Sign upMajor macroeconomic issues of developing countries. Issues include problems in generating capital, conduct of monetary and fiscal policies, foreign aid and investment. Important issues of policy concerning international borrowing and external debt of developing countries.ECN 115BYEconomic Development
Sign upMacroeconomic issues of developing countries. Problems in generating capital, conduct of monetary and fiscal policies, foreign aid and investment. Issues of policy concerning international borrowing and external debt of developing countries.ECN 116Comparative Economic Systems
Sign upEconomics analysis of the relative virtues of capitalism and socialism, including welfare economics. Marxian exploitation theory, the socialist calculation debate (Hayek and Lange), alternative capitalist systems (Japan, Germany, U.S.) and contemporary models of market socialism.ECN 117Economics of International Immigration
Sign upIntroduction to research on the economics of immigration. Immigrant demographics and reasons for migrating. Immigrant success and effects on native populations. Influence of immigrants on those left behind. Discussion of migration policy in the US and other countries.ECN 121AIndustrial Organization
Sign upAppraisal of the role of competition and monopoly in the American economy; market structure, conduct, and economic performance of a variety of industries.ECN 121BIndustrial Organization
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Study of antitrust and economic regulation. Emphasis on applying theoretical models to U.S. industries and case studies, including telecommunications, software, and electricity markets.ECN 122Theory of Games & Strategic Behavior
Sign upIntroduction to game theory. Explanation of the behavior of rational individuals with interacting and often conflicting interests. Non-cooperative and cooperative theory. Applications to economics, political science and other fields.ECN 125Energy Economics
Sign upApplication of theoretical and empirical models to examine efficiency in energy production and use. Energy and environmental policy, market structure and power, global climate change, optimal regulation, and real-world applications; e.g., California electricity crisis.ECN 130Public Microeconomics
Sign upPublic expenditures; theory and applications. Efficiency and equity of competitive markets; externalities, public goods, and market failures; positive and normative aspects of public policy for expenditure, including benefit-cost analysis. Topics include consumer protection, pollution, education, poverty and crime.ECN 131Public Finance
Sign upEconomic burden of taxation; equity and efficiency considerations in tax design; structure and economic effects of the U.S. tax system (including personal income tax, corporation income tax, and property tax); tax loopholes; recent developments; tax reform proposals.ECN 132Health Economics
Sign upThe health care market, emphasizing the role and use of economics. Individual demand, provision of services by doctors and hospitals, health insurance, managed care and competition, the role of government access to health care.ECN 133YPoverty, Inequality & Public Policy
Sign upExamination of the economics of poverty and inequality in the United States, including measurement, trends, and related policies.ECN 134Financial Economics
Sign upGeneral background and rationale of corporation; finance as resource allocation over time; decision making under uncertainty and the role of information; capital market and interest rate structure; financial decisions.ECN 135Money, Banks, & Financial Institutions
Sign upBanks and the banking system. Uncertainty and asymmetric information in the lending process; efficiency of competitive equilibrium in lending markets. Regulation and the conduct of monetary policy.ECN 136Topics in Macroeconomic Theory
Sign upAdvanced Topics in macroeconomics theory. Develops the theoretical and empirical analysis of a specific field of macroeconomics. Possible topics include, business cycle theories, growth theory, monetary economics, political economics and theories of unemployment and inflation.ECN 137Macroeconomic Policy
Sign upTheory and practice of macroeconomic policy, both monetary and fiscal.ECN 138Public Economics in International Perspective
Sign upSocial problems and government responses in developed and developing countries; health, unemployment, informal insurance, poverty, corruption, and public service delivery; emphasis on quantitative and data analysis skills; applications to real world policy problems.ECN 140Econometrics
Sign upProblems of observation, estimation and hypotheses testing in economics through the study of the theory and application of linear regression models. Critical evaluation of selected examples of empirical research and exercises in applied economics.ECN 141Economic & Financial Forecasting
Sign upIntroduction to economics and financial forecasting tools. Econometrics modeling methods and real-world data applications using the computing language R. Time-series techniques including auto-regression, random walk, and volatility forecasting. Financial econometrics topics including yield curve modeling and asset pricing.ECN 145Transportation Economics
Sign upExamination of fundamental problems of planning and financing transportation "infrastructure" (roads, ports, airports). Economics of the automobile industry, as well as the impact of government regulation and deregulation in the airlines and trucking industries. Intended for advanced Economics undergraduates.ECN 151AEconomics of the Labor Market
Sign upTheory of labor supply and demand; determination of wages and employment in the labor market. Policy issues: labor force participation by married women; minimum wages and youth unemployment; effect of unions on wages.ECN 151BEconomics of Human Resources
Sign upHuman resource analysis; introduction to human capital theory and economics of education; the basic theory of wage differentials, including theories of labor market discrimination; income distribution; poverty. Policy issues; negative income tax; manpower training programs; incomes policy.ECN 152Economics of Education
Sign upApplication of theoretical and empirical tools of economics to the education sector. Demand for Education; Education Production and Market Structures in Education. Policy applications: class size reduction, school finance equalization, accountability, and school choice.ECN 160AInternational Microeconomics
Sign upInternational grade theory: impact of trade on the domestic and world economies; public policy toward external trade.ECN 160BInternational Macroeconomics
Sign upMacroeconomic theory of an open economy. Balance of payments adjustment mechanism, international monetary economics issues; international financial institutions and their policies.ECN 162International Economic Relations
Sign upInternational trade & monetary relations, trade policy, exchange rate policy, policies toward international capital migration and investment. Emphasis on current policy issues. Intended especially for non-majors.ECN 167Economic Development in Weak States
Sign upBarriers to economic development in developing countries. Economic and policy tools to address barriers within a functioning, well-intentioned government and non-functioning or ill-intentioned governments. Conflict between the state and other subnational actors for legitimate political control.ECN 200AMicroeconomic Theory
Sign upLinear and non-linear optimization theory applied to develop the theory of the profit-maximizing firm and the utility-maximizing consumer.ECN 200BMicroeconomic Theory
Sign upCharacteristics of market equilibrium under perfect competition, simple monopoly and monopsony. Emphasis on general equilibrium and welfare economics; the sources of market success and market failure.ECN 200CMicroeconomic Theory
Sign upUncertainty and information economics. Individual decision making under uncertainty. Introduction to game theory, with emphasis on applications to markets with firms that are imperfect competitors or consumers that are imperfectly informed.ECN 200DMacroeconomic Theory
Sign upMacro static theory of income, employment, and prices.ECN 200EMacroeconomic Theory
Sign upMacrodynamic theory of income, employment, and prices.ECN 200FMacroeconomic Theory
Sign upInteraction between financial markets' frictions and macroeconomic fluctuations. Leverage and the financial accelerator, fire sales, credit booms and busts, liquidity, the role of intermediaries and the risk of bank runs, speculative bubbles, and incomplete markets and precautionary savings.ECN 201AHistory of Economic Thought
Sign upEconomic thought from the classical Greece era to modern times.ECN 201BHistory of Economic Thought II
Sign upOrigins and emergence of modern economic analysis.ECN 203AAdvanced Economic Theory
Sign upAdvanced topics in general equilibrium theory and welfare economics: existence, determinateness and efficiency; intertemporal economies; uncertainty.ECN 203BAdvanced Economic Theory: Game Theory
Sign upCovers the most recent developments in game theory, with the focus changing from year to year. Main topics are: refinements Nash equilibrium, repeated games, evolution, social situations, bounded rationality, and bargaining theory.ECN 210AEconomic History
Sign upEconomic history of the eastern hemisphere in the modern period. Medieval Europe or other regions may be studied, depending on student interest.ECN 210BEconomic History
Sign upThe United States from Colonial times to the present. Other areas of the western hemisphere may be studied, according to student interest.ECN 214Development Economics
Sign upReview of the principal theoretical and empirical issues whose analysis has formed development economics. Analysis of economic development theories and development strategies and their application to specific policy issues in developing country contexts.ECN 215AMicrodevelopment Theory & Methods I
Sign upAgricultural development theory, with a focus on microeconomics. Agricultural household behavior with and without market imperfections and uncertainty. Analysis of rural land, labor, credit and insurance markets, institutions, and contracts.ECN 215BOpen Macroeconomics of Development
Sign upModels and policy approaches regarding trade, monetary and fiscal issues, capital flows and debt are discussed in the macroeconomic framework of an open developing country. Basic analytical focus is real exchange rate and its impact on sectoral allocation of resources.ECN 215CMicrodevelopment Theory & Methods II
Sign upExtension of development theory and microeconomic methods. Agricultural growth and technological change; poverty and income inequality; multisectoral, including village and regional models. Computable general equilibrium methods and applications.ECN 215DEnvironmental & Economic Development
Sign upInterdisciplinary course drawing on theoretical and empirical research on interactions between environmental resource use and economic development processes. Analysis of issues emerging at the interface of environmental and development economics.ECN 216Energy & Climate Policy
Sign upFundamentals of energy technology, economics, and policy. Survey and analysis of current and prospective climate policies at the local and global level, including but not limited to cap-and-trade, emissions offsets, intensity standards, technology standards, mandates and subsidies.ECN 221AThe Theory of Industrial Organization
Sign upGame theory is used to analyze strategic interaction of firms in industries. Topics include models of competition, product differentiation, entry-deterring strategies, contractual arrangements, vertical control and antitrust issues.ECN 221BEmpirical Analysis in Industrial Organization
Sign upRecent empirical work in industrial organization. Topics include empirical analysis of cartels, product differentiation, innovation and technological change, and imperfect competition in international markets.ECN 221CIndustrial Organization & Regulation
Sign upOptimal regulation of natural monopoly. Topics include regulatory mechanisms for single and multiple output firms under symmetric and asymmetric information, optimality without regulation, the economic theory of regulation, and empirical studies of regulation and deregulation.ECN 230APublic Economics
Sign upMeasures of deadweight loss and consumer surplus; optimal commodity and income taxation; tax incidence; policy issues in personal taxation, corporate taxation, and social insurance; the evaluation of effective tax rates.ECN 230BPublic Economics
Sign upEffects of government policies on economic behavior; labor supply, program participation, investment, consumption and savings.ECN 233Poverty & Public Policy
Sign upInterdisciplinary course covering qualitative and quantitative U.S. based poverty research. Topics include measurement, statistics, theories and evidence on the causes and consequences of poverty, and the history and efficacy of major anti-poverty programs.ECN 235AMacroeconomics
Sign upFrontiers of applied/empirical macroeconomics. Evidence and lessons from macroeconomic history for The Great Depression, financial crises, efficient markets, parity conditions, capital flows, default, financial crises, exchange rates, growth, and other current empirical research topics.ECN 235BMacroeconomics
Sign upSearch theory, theory of real-world markets characterized by search frictions, with applications: Labor economics: models of unemployment and wages differentials; Financial economics: determination of asset prices in OTC financial markets; Monetary Economics: foundations for money as a medium of exchange.ECN 235CMacroeconomics
Sign upBasic numerical methods for analytically intractable problems in economics. Techniques presented applicable in a wide range of fields including macroeconomics, econometrics, resource economics, labor economics, economic theory, international trade, finance, game theory, public finance, contract theory, and others.ECN 239Econometric Foundations
Sign upPrepares students for econometric theory and empirical work by examining the statistical foundation of econometrics. Special attention is paid to problems specific to non-experimental data common to social sciences. Topics from matrix algebra are also covered.ECN 240AEconometric Methods
Sign upLeast squares, instrumental variables, and maximum likelihood estimation and inference for single equation linear regression model; linear restrictions; heteroskedasticity; autocorrelation; lagged dependent variables.ECN 240BEconometric Methods
Sign upTopics include asymptotic theory and instrumental variables, pooled time-series cross-section estimation, seemingly unrelated regression, classical hypothesis tests, identification and estimation of simultaneous equation models, cointegration, errorcorrection models, and qualitative and limited dependent variable models.ECN 240CTime Series Econometrics
Sign upProbability theory; estimation, inference and forecasting of time series models; trends and non-standard asymptotic theory; vector time series methods and cointegration; time series models for higher order moments and transition data; state-space modeling and the Kalman filter.ECN 240DCross Section Econometrics
Sign upEstimation and inference for nonlinear regression models for cross-section data; models for discrete data and for limited dependent variables; models for panel data; additional topics such as bootstrap and semiparametric regression.ECN 240ETopics in Time Series Econometrics
Sign upModern econometric techniques for time series data. Expand on topics covered in ECN 240A, ECN 240B, ECN 240C. Content may differ year to year.ECN 240FTopics in Cross Section Econometrics
Sign upModern econometrics techniques for cross-section data. Expand on topics covered in ECN 240A, ECN 240B, ECN 240D. Content may differ year to year.ECN 250ALabor Economics
Sign upPhilosophy, theory and history of American and foreign labor movements; union structure, organization and collective bargaining under changing labor market conditions; current labor market issues.ECN 250BLabor Economics
Sign upMicroeconomic theory of labor supply and labor demand, estimation of labor supply and demand functions; human capital theory; labor market analysis.ECN 260AInternational Economics
Sign upTheory of trade determinants; gains from trade; tariffs and effective protection; economic unions.ECN 260BInternational Economics
Sign upBalance of payments adjustment mechanisms; foreign exchange markets theories of balance of payments policy and international monetary mechanisms.ECN 260CNInternational Investment & Trade
Sign upAnalysis of foreign investment and its links to trade; theories of the firm as they relate to firm's export and investment decisions; and an introduction to the political economy of trade policies.ECN 260FInternational Macroeconomic Policy
Sign upTheory and practice of international macroeconomic policy. Topics include exchange rate regimes, international financial institutions, crises and current topics.ECN 270AEconomics of Growth
Sign upModern theories and empirics of economic growth beginning with the neoclassical theories up to current endogenous growth models. Emphasis on the analysis of human capital and growth, technological innovation, its diffusion and empirical evidence on growth.ECN 270BEconomics of Growth
Sign upEmpirical analysis of growth patterns and growth models.ECN 270CEconomics of Growth
Sign upInstitutional bases; politics; contracts and commitment; money and finance; malthusian dynamics; modern economic growth; transition of industrialization; dual economies, core and periphery; sources of convergence and divergence; openness and growth; resources, demography, and geography; institutions, imperialism, and class conflicts.
ECS116 courses
ECS 012Introduction to Media Computation
Sign upIntroduction to key computational ideas necessary to understand and produce digital media. Fundamentals of programming are covered as well as analysis of how media are represented and transmitted in digital form. Aimed primarily at non-computer science students.ECS 015Introduction to Computers
Sign upComputer uses in modern society. Emphasis on uses in non-scientific disciplines. Includes word processing, spreadsheets, web-page creation, elementary programming, basic computer organization, the Internet, the uses of computers and their influence on society. Not intended for Computer Science or Computer Science & Engineering majors.ECS 017Data, Logic, & Computing
Sign upDisplay, processing, and representation of information and data on a computer. Understanding and analyzing the digital representations of numbers, images, and sounds. Basic computer operations and their logic. Introduction to algorithms. Uses of computers and their influence on society.ECS 020Discrete Mathematics For Computer Science
Sign upDiscrete mathematics of particular utility to computer science. Proofs by induction. Propositional and first-order logic. Sets, functions, and relations. Big-O and related notations. Recursion and solutions of recurrence relations. Combinatorics. Probability on finite probability spaces. Graph theory.ECS 032AIntroduction to Programming
Sign upIntroduction to programming and problem solving in Python. Aimed primarily at non-major students.ECS 032BIntroduction to Data Structures
Sign upDesign and analysis of data structures using Python; trees, heaps, searching, sorting, and graphs.ECS 032CImplementation of Data Structures in C
Sign upProgramming in the C language. Use of basic UNIX tools. Writing good programs of increased complexity and efficiency. Implementation of data structures in C.ECS 034Software Development in UNIX & C++
Sign upUNIX Operating system tools and programming environment. Methods for debugging and verification. Principles object-oriented programming in C++.ECS 036AProgramming & Problem Solving
Sign upComputers and computer programming for students with some prior experience, algorithm design, and debugging. Good programming style. Use of basic UNIX tools.ECS 036BSoftware Development & Object-Oriented Programming in C++
Sign upObject-oriented programming in C++. Basic data structures and their use. Writing good programs of increased complexity and efficiency. Methods for debugging and verification.ECS 036CData Structures, Algorithms, & Programming
Sign upDesign and analysis of data structures for a variety of applications; trees, heaps, searching, sorting, hashing, and graphs. Extensive programming.ECS 050Computer Organization & Machine-Dependent Programming
Sign upComparative study of different hardware architectures via programming in the assembly languages of various machines. Role of system software in producing an abstract machine. Introduction to I/O devices and programming.ECS 089ASpecial Topics in Computer Science: Computer Science Theory
Sign upSpecial topics in Computer Science Theory.ECS 089BSpecial Topics in Computer Science: Architecture
Sign upSpecial topics in Architecture.ECS 089CSpecial Topics in Computer Science: Programming Languages & Compilers
Sign upSpecial topics in Programming Languages & Compilers.ECS 089DSpecial Topics in Computer Science: Operating Systems
Sign upSpecial topics in Operating Systems.ECS 089ESpecial Topics in Computer Science: Software Engineering
Sign upSpecial topics in Software Engineering.ECS 089FSpecial Topics in Computer Science: Databases
Sign upSpecial topics in Databases.ECS 089GSpecial Topics in Computer Science: Artificial Intelligence
Sign upSpecial topics in Artificial Intelligence.ECS 089HSpecial Topics in Computer Science: Computer Graphics
Sign upSpecial topics in Computer Graphics.ECS 089ISpecial Topics in Computer Science: Networks
Sign upSpecial topics in Networks.ECS 089JSpecial Topics in Computer Science: Computer-Aided Design
Sign upSpecial topics in Computer-Aided Design.ECS 089KSpecial Topics in Computer Science: Scientific Computing
Sign upSpecial topics in Scientific Computing.ECS 089LSpecial Topics in Computer Science: Computer Science
Sign upSpecial topics in Computer Science.ECS 113Computer Security for Non-Majors
Sign upPrinciples, mechanisms, implementation, and sound practices of computer security and data protection. Cryptography, authentication and access control. Internet security. Malicious software. Common vulnerabilities. Practical security in everyday life. Not intended for Computer Science or Computer Science & Engineering majors.ECS 115Computer Networks for Non-Majors
Sign upOverview of computer networks, World Wide Web, email, local & wide-area computer networks, TCP/IP protocol suite, network protocols for data transmission, introduction to network programming.ECS 116Databases for Non-Majors
Sign upOverview of Database Systems, Conceptual Modeling and Design, E/R diagrams, Relational Model, Relational Algebra, SQL, File and Index Structures, Query Evaluation, Transaction Concepts, Concurrency and Recovery, and NoSQL Databases.ECS 120Theory of Computation
Sign upFundamental ideas in the theory of computation, including formal languages, computability and complexity. Reducibility among computational problems.ECS 122AAlgorithm Design & Analysis
Sign upComplexity of algorithms, bounds on complexity, analysis methods. Searching, sorting, pattern matching, graph algorithms. Algorithm design techniques: divide-conquer, greedy, dynamic programming. Approximation methods. NP-complete problems.ECS 122BAlgorithm Design & Analysis
Sign upTheory and practice of hard problems, and problems with complex algorithm solutions. NP-completeness, approximation algorithms, randomized algorithms, dynamic programming and branch and bound. Theoretical analysis, implementation and practical evaluations. Examples from parallel, string, graph, and geometric algorithms.ECS 124Theory & Practice of Bioinformatics
Sign upECS 127Cryptography
Sign upIntroduction to the theory and practice of cryptographic techniques used in computer security. Encryption (secret-key and public-key), message authentication, digital signatures, entity authentication, key distribution, and other cryptographic protocols. The social context of cryptography.ECS 129Computational Structural Bioinformatics
Sign upFundamental biological, chemical and algorithmic models underlying computational structural biology; protein structure and nucleic acids structure; comparison of protein structures; protein structure prediction; molecular simulations; databases and online services in computational structural biology.ECS 130Scientific Computation
Sign upMatrix-vector approach using MATLAB for floating-point arithmetic, error analysis, data interpolation, least squares data fitting, quadrature, zeros, optimization and matrix eigenvalues and singular values. Parallel computing for matrix operations and essential matrix factorizations.ECS 132Probability & Statistical Modeling for Computer Science
Sign upUnivariate and multivariate distributions. Estimation and model building. Markov/Hidden Markov models. Applications to data mining, networks, security, software engineering and bioinformatics.ECS 140AProgramming Languages
Sign upSyntactic definition of programming languages. Introduction to programming language features including variables, data types, data abstraction, object-orientedness, scoping, parameter disciplines, exception handling. Non-imperative programming languages. Comparative study of several high-level programming languages.ECS 140BProgramming Languages
Sign upContinuation of programming language principles. Further study of programming language paradigms such as functional and logic; additional programming language paradigms such as concurrent (parallel); key implementation issues for those paradigms; and programming language semantics.ECS 142Compilers
Sign upPrinciples and techniques of lexical analysis, parsing, semantic analysis, code generation, and code optimization. Implementation of compilers.ECS 145Scripting Languages & Their Applications
Sign upGoals and philosophy of scripting languages, with Python and R as prime examples. Applications include networking, data analysis and display, and graphical user interfaces (GUIs).ECS 150Operating Systems & System Programming
Sign upBasic concepts of operating systems and system programming. Processes and interprocess communication/synchronization; virtual memory, program loading and linking; file and I/O subsystems; utility programs. Study of a real operating system.ECS 152AComputer Networks
Sign upOverview of computer networks, TCP/IP protocol suite, computer-networking applications and protocols, transport-layer protocols, network architectures, Internet Protocol (IP), routing, link-layer protocols, local area and wireless networks, medium access control, physical aspects of data transmission, and network-performance analysis.ECS 152BComputer Networks
Sign upTCP/IP protocol suite, computer networking applications, client-server and peer-to-peer architectures, application-layer protocols, transport-layer protocols, transport-layer interfaces, sockets, network programming, remote procedure calls, and network management.ECS 152CAdvanced Topics in Computer Networks
Sign upAdvanced topics in computer networks, wireless networks, multimedia networking, traffic analysis and modeling, network design and management, network simulation and performance analysis, and design projects in communication networks.ECS 153Computer Security
Sign upPrinciples, mechanisms, and implementation of computer security and data protection. Policy, encryption and authentication, access control, and integrity models and mechanisms; network security; secure systems; programming and vulnerabilities analysis. Study of an existing operating system.ECS 154AComputer Architecture
Sign upIntroduction to digital design. Interfacing of devices for I/O, memory and memory management. Input/output programming, via wait loops, hardware interrupts and calls to operating system services. Hardware support for operating systems software.ECS 154BComputer Architecture
Sign upHardwired and microprogrammed CPU design. Memory hierarchies. Uniprocessor performance analysis under varying program mixes. Introduction to pipelining and multiprocessors.ECS 158Programming on Parallel Architectures
Sign upTechniques for software development using the shared-memory and message-passing paradigms, on parallel architectures and networks of workstations. Locks, barriers, and other techniques for synchronization. Introduction to parallel algorithms.ECS 160 Software Engineering
Sign upRequirements, specification, design, implementation, testing, and verification of large software systems. Study and use of software engineering methodologies.ECS 161Modern Programming Tools
Sign upConcepts and practice of collaborative software development using modern software tools.ECS 162Web Programming
Sign upTechnical aspects of building websites, including both server-side and client-side software development.ECS 163Information Interfaces
Sign upArt and science of information visualization and interfaces for information systems. Design principles of human-computer interaction. Visual display and navigation of nonspatial and higher dimensional data. Implementations, performance issues, tradeoffs, and evaluation of interactive information systems.ECS 164Human-Computer Interaction
Sign upIntroduction to concepts and practice of modern human-computer interaction design.ECS 165ADatabase Systems
Sign upDatabase modeling and design (E/R model, relational model), relational algebra, query languages (SQL), file and index structures, query processing, transaction management.ECS 165BDatabase Systems
Sign upData modeling (object-relational, graph-based, spatiotemporal models). Querying semistructured data (XML). Database theory (normalization, integration, provenance). Database programming (stored procedures, embedded SQL, web programming). Advanced topics (data warehousing, parallel data processing).ECS 170Introduction to Artificial Intelligence
Sign upDesign and implementation of intelligent computer systems. Knowledge representation and organization. Memory and inference. Problem solving. Natural language processing.ECS 171Machine Learning
Sign upIntroduction to machine learning. Supervised & unsupervised learning, including classification, dimensionality reduction, regression & clustering using modern machine learning methods. Applications of machine learning to other fields.ECS 172Recommender Systems
Sign upCollaborative filtering and content-based methods for building recommender systems. Statistical, matrix factorization, textual analysis, and nearest-neighbor approaches. Case studies.ECS 173Image Processing & Analysis
Sign upTechniques for automated extraction of high-level information from images generated by cameras, three-dimensional surface sensors, and medical devices. Typical applications include detection of objects in various types of images and describing populations of biological specimens appearing in medical imagery.ECS 174Computer Vision
Sign upComputer vision is the study of enabling machines to "see" the visual world; e.g., understand images and videos. Explores several fundamental topics in the area, including feature detection, grouping and segmentation, and recognition.ECS 175Computer Graphics
Sign upPrinciples of computer graphics, with a focus on interactive systems. Current graphics hardware, elementary operations in two-and three-dimensional space, geometric transformations, camera models and interaction, graphics system design, standard graphics APIs, individual projects.ECS 177Scientific Visualization
Sign upComputer graphics techniques for generating images of various types of measured or computer-simulated data. Typical applications for these graphics techniques include study of air flows around car bodies, medical data, and molecular structures.ECS 178Geometric Modeling
Sign upInteractive graphics techniques for defining and manipulating geometrical shapes used in computer animation, car body design, aircraft design, and architectural design.ECS 188Ethics in an Age of Technology
Sign upFoundations of ethics. Views of technology. Technology and human values. Costs and benefits of technology. Character of technological change. Social context of work in computer science and engineering.ECS 201AAdvanced Computer Architecture
Sign upModern research topics and methods in computer architecture. Design implications of memory latency and bandwidth limitations. Performance enhancement via within-processor and between-processor parallelism.ECS 201BHigh-Performance Uniprocessing
Sign upMaximizing uniprocessor performance. Barriers to high performance; solutions to the problems; historical and current processor designs.ECS 201CParallel Architectures
Sign upEvolution of parallel architectures from special-purpose machines to commodity servers. Emphasis on recent machines and applications that drive them.ECS 203Novel Computing Technologies
Sign upNovel computing technologies that could revolutionize computer architecture. Quantum computing technologies, including algorithms, devices, and fault tolerance. A survey of other unconventional technologies including nanoscale electronics, MEMS devices, biological devices, and nanotechnology.ECS 220Theory of Computation
Sign upTime and space complexity classes. Reductions, completeness, and the role of randomness. Logic and undecidability.ECS 221Computational Methods in Systems & Synthetic Biology
Sign upComputational methods related to systems and synthetic biology. An overview of machine learning techniques related to the analysis of biological data, biological networks. Predictive modeling and simulation of biological systems. Topics on biological circuit construction.ECS 222ADesign & Analysis of Algorithms
Sign upTechniques for designing efficient algorithms, analyzing their complexity and applying these algorithms to a broad range of applications. Methods for recognizing and dealing with difficult problems.ECS 222BAdvanced Design & Analysis of Algorithms
Sign upAdvanced topics in complexity theory. Problem classification. The classes P, NP, P-space, co-NP. Matching and network flow algorithms. Matrix multiplication. Approximation algorithms.ECS 223Parallel Algorithms
Sign upModels of parallel computer systems including PRAMs, loosely coupled systems and interconnection networks. Parallel algorithms for classical problems and general techniques for their design and analysis. Proving lower bounds on parallel computation in several settings.ECS 224String Algorithms & Applications in Computational Biology
Sign upAlgorithms that operate on strings. Pattern matching, sets of patterns, regular expression pattern matching, suffix trees and applications, inexact similarity, parametric sequence alignment, applications to DNA sequencing and protein database searching.ECS 225Graph Theory
Sign upFundamental concepts. Planar graphs: Kuratowski's theorem. Packings and coverings. Menger's theorem, representation of cuts, Hamilton graphs, rigid graphs, chordal graphs, graph coloring, graph isomorphism, applications and some algorithms.ECS 226Computational Geometry
Sign upMathematics of unstructured data. Algorithms for data structures such as Voronoi diagrams, oct-trees, and arrangements. Applications in computer graphics, concentrating on problems in three-dimensions.ECS 227Modern Cryptography
Sign upModern cryptography as a discipline emphasizing formal definitions and proofs of security. One-way functions, pseudo-randomness, encryption, digital signatures, zero-knowledge, secure protocols.ECS 228Cryptograpy for E-Commerce
Sign upCryptographic primitives and protocols of importance to e-commerce, present and future, including content distribution mechanisms, payment mechanisms, pricing mechanisms, anonymity and privacy mechanisms, fair exchange mechanisms.ECS 229Advanced Computational Structural Bioinformatics
Sign upAlgorithmic problems in structural biology; protein structure classification; protein structure prediction (including comparative modeling and ab initio protein structure prediction); molecular simulations (molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations).ECS 230Applied Numerical Linear Algebra
Sign upNumerical linear algebra (NLA) with emphasis on applications in engineered systems; matrix factorizations; perturbation and rounding error analyses of fundamental NLA algorithms.ECS 231Large-Scale Scientific Computation
Sign upAlgorithms and techniques for large-scale scientific computation, including basics for high performance computing, iterative methods, discrete approximation, fast Fourier transform, Poisson solvers, particle methods, spectral graph partition and its applications.ECS 234Computational Functional Genomics
Sign upBioinformatics methods for analysis and inference of functional relationships among genes using large-scale genomic data, including methods for integration of gene expression, promoter sequence, TF-DNA binding and other data, and approaches in modeling of biological networks.ECS 235AComputer & Information Security
Sign upModern topics in computer security, including: protection, access control, operating systems security, network security, applied cryptography, cryptographic protocols, secure programming practices, safe languages, mobile code, malware, privacy and anonymity, and case studies from real-world systems.ECS 235BFoundations of Computer & Information Security
Sign upTheoretical foundations of methods used to protect data in computer and communication systems. Access control matrix and undecidability of security; policies; Bell-LaPadula, Biba, Chinese Wall models; non-interference and non-deducibility; information flow and the confinement problem.ECS 236Computer Security: Intrusion Detection Based Approach
Sign upConcepts of intrusion detection, anomaly detection based on machine learning, signature-based detection using pattern matching, automated response to attacks using artificial intelligence planning, tracing intruders based on principal component analysis, security policy languages.ECS 240Programming Languages
Sign upAdvanced topics in programming languages, including formal syntax and semantics, the relation between formal semantics and verification, an introduction to the lambda calculus. Additional topics will include language design principles, alternative programming languages, in-depth semantic theory and models of language implementation.ECS 242Translation of Programming Languages
Sign upLexical analysis, parsing, storage management, symbol table design, semantic analysis and code generation. LR, LALR grammars. Compilercompilers.ECS 243Code Generation & Optimization
Sign upCompiler optimizations for performance, code size and power reduction. Topics include control- and data-flow analysis, redundancy elimination, loop and cache optimizations, register allocation, local and global instruction scheduling, and modulo scheduling.ECS 244Principles of Concurrent Programming
Sign upFundamental concepts and applications of concurrent programs; concurrent program verification and derivation; synchronization mechanisms in programming languages; distributed programming techniques; case studies of languages.ECS 247Concurrent Programming Languages
Sign upLanguage design parameters. Models of parallel machines. Load balancing. Scalability. Portability. Efficiency measures. Design and implementation techniques for several classes of concurrent programming languages (such as object-oriented, functional, logic, and constraint programming languages).ECS 251Operating Systems
Sign upModels, design, implementation, performance evaluation in operating systems. Algorithms, internal architectures for single processor OS and distributed systems. Concurrency control, recovery, security. OS kernel-level programming. Special topics embedded systems, real-time system, device driver, NPU (Network Processor Unit).ECS 252Computer Networks
Sign upInternet protocol based computer networks applications, transport, network layer protocols. High speed LAN technologies: Ethernet, Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM). Delay models in data networks: analysis of multiaccess techniques in polling, ring, random access networks. Multimedia applications requirements and design.ECS 253Network Theory & Applications
Sign upDevelops the mathematical theory underlying growth, structure and function of networks with applications to physical, social, biological and engineered systems. Topics include network growth, resilience, epidemiology, phase transitions, software and algorithms, routing and search control, cascading failures.ECS 255Resource Management in Wireless Communication Networks
Sign upAdvanced research issues in wireless communication networks, including multi-user diversity and cross-layer optimization, basic network information theory, MIMO systems and the impact on networks, and dynamics spectrum management.ECS 256Probability Models for Computer Science
Sign upProbabilistic and statistical models useful in computer/data science. Applications to networks, bioinformatics, database management, machine learning, software engineering and image processing.ECS 257Mobile & Wireless Networks
Sign upFundamental techniques in design of second generation wireless networks: cellular network and protocols, medium access techniques, handoff control, signaling and mobility management, wireless data works, Internet mobility and Personal Communication Services (PCS). Third generation wideband systems, novel technologies, adhoc networks.ECS 259Optical Networks
Sign upOptical networks. Enabling technologies. Multiplexing techniques. WDM. Broadcast networks. Wavelength-routed networks. Network architectures. Protocols. Network algorithms. Device-network interface. Optimization problems.ECS 260Software Engineering
Sign upAdvanced techniques for domain-specific software reuse.ECS 261Program Verification
Sign upMethods of proving correctness of programs with respect to formal specifications, with attention to those suited for employing automated deduction.Logic background, symbolic execution, techniques suited to iterative programming, methods from denotational semantics, termination, dynamic logic and proofs of concurrent programs.ECS 262Formal Specification
Sign upFormal specification of modules, and its relationship to topdown programming development and verification. Abstract data types, together with methods for specifying them. Implementations and proofs of implementation. Using specifications to reason about programs. Parameterized types. Constructing good formal specifications.ECS 265Distributed Database Systems
Sign upConcepts of distributed database systems and architectures, distributed database design, distributed query processing and optimization, transaction management and concurrency control, heterogeneous and multidatabase systems.ECS 266Spatial Databases
Sign upConcepts, models, and architectures for spatial databases, spatial access methods, query processing, spatio-temporal data management, moving objects, spatial data mining.ECS 267Wide-Area Distributed Information Systems
Sign upWide-area distributed information systems, data broadcast, multicast, publish/subscribe, service differentiation, information retrieval, Web caching.ECS 268Scientific Data & Workflow Management
Sign upScientific data integration, metadata, knowledge representation, ontologies, scientific workflow design and management.ECS 269Visual Recognition
Sign upGraduate seminar course on computer vision with an emphasis on object recognition, activity recognition, and scene understanding.ECS 270Artificial Intelligence
Sign upConcepts and techniques underlying the design and implementation of models of human performance on intelligent tasks. Representation of high-level knowledge structures. Models of memory and inference. Natural language and story understanding. Common sense planning and problem solving.ECS 271Machine Learning & Discovery
Sign upArtificial intelligence techniques for knowledge acquisition by computers. Fundamental problems in machine learning and discovery. Systems that learn from examples, analogies, and solved problems. Systems that discover numerical laws and qualitative relationships. Projects centering on implementation and evaluation.ECS 272Information Visualization
Sign upAdvanced topics in information visualization: perceptually effective display methods, color design and selection, interaction models and techniques, focus-context techniques, distortion methods, large graph visualization techniques, visual data mining methods, and evaluation methods.ECS 273Applied Visual Computing
Sign upVisual computing paradigms, current visualization technologies, principles of 3-d graphics, user interface designs, and exploratory visualization.ECS 274Automated Deduction
Sign upTechniques of mechanical theorem proving. Methods based on resolution and termrewriting. Decision procedures. Induction. Applications to program verification, question/answering and plan generation. Study existing mechanical theorem provers.ECS 275AAdvanced Computer Graphics
Sign upAdvanced topics in computer graphics. Hidden surface models, rendering of various surface types, subdivision methods, shading techniques, anti-aliasing, modeling techniques.ECS 275BAdvanced Computer Graphics
Sign upAdvanced topics in computer graphics and geometric modeling. Topics taken from advanced research papers in computer graphics, image synthesis, visualization and geometric modeling. Discussion of current research in the field.ECS 276Advanced Volume Visualization
Sign upApplications, available tools and techniques, the challenges confronting the field of volume visualization, and some of the advanced topics in the field. Primary emphasis on advanced software and hardware techniques to achieve interactive visualization.ECS 277Advanced Visualization
Sign upVisualization of 3D data, including scalar fields, vector fields, and medical data.ECS 278Computer-Aided Geometric Design
Sign upMathematical techniques for the definition and manipulation of curves and surfaces. Bezier curves and surfaces, B-spline curves and surfaces, subdivision surfaces, wavelets. Integration into various computer graphics rendering models, visualization systems and computer-aided design systems.ECS 279Computer Animation
Sign upSurveys current research and fundamental techniques that lie behind character animation tools. Emphasis on improving expressive aspects of movement and how physics, motion capture data, the arts and psychology literature, and interactive techniques can be used towards this goal.ECS 280Virtual Reality Technology
Sign upFundamentals and principles of Virtual Reality (VR) technology. Potential and limits for its useful application. Developing a complete virtual reality application.
EEC112 courses
EEC 001Introduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering
Sign upIntroduction to Electrical & Computer Engineering with focus on sub-disciplines of Electrical & Computer Engineering, engineering design, and problem solving. Microcontrollers, analog circuits, signal processing, and communications links. Application of topics to create a functional device.EEC 007Introduction to Programming & Microcontrollers
Sign upProgramming computers using C/C++ languages. Software engineering and object-oriented design. Programming for hardware devices.EEC 010Introduction to Digital & Analog Systems
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below.EEC 018Digital Systems I
Sign upIntroduction to digital system design including combinational logic design, sequential and asynchronous circuits, computer arithmetic, memory systems and algorithmic state machine design; computer aided design (CAD) methodologies and tools.EEC 100Circuits II
Sign upTheory, application, and design of analog circuits. Methods of analysis including frequency response, SPICE simulation, and Laplace transform. Operational amplifiers and design of active filters.EEC 105AEE-Emerge 1
Sign upWork in groups to conceive, design and prototype electronic exhibits to promote engineering to the public.EEC 105BEE-Emerge 2
Sign upWork in groups to construct electronic exhibits.EEC 105CEE-Emerge 3
Sign upWork in groups to present electronic exhibits to the public.EEC 110AElectronic Circuits I
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Use and modeling of nonlinear solid-state electronic devices in basic analog and digital circuits. Introduction to the design of transistor amplifiers and logic gates.EEC 110BElectronic Circuits II
Sign upAnalysis and design of integrated circuits. Single-stage amplifiers, cascaded amplifier stages, differential amplifiers, current sources, frequency response, and return-ratio analysis of feedback amplifiers.EEC 111Digital Electronic Circuits
Sign upMOS device fundamentals, introduction to the design of CMOS logic gates, layout, circuits, and modeling. Examination of voltage transfer characteristics, and propagation delay.EEC 112Communication Electronics
Sign upElectronic circuits for analog and digital communication, including oscillators, mixers, tuned amplifiers, modulators, demodulators, and phase-locked loops. Circuits for amplitude modulation (AM) and frequency modulation (FM) are emphasized.EEC 113Power Electronic Circuits
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Electronic circuits for power applications, including linear voltage regulators, switching DC-DC converters, DC-AC converters (inverters) and AC-DC converters (rectifiers). Control loop and stability of circuits.EEC 116VLSI Design
Sign upCMOS devices, layout, circuits, and functional units; VLSI fabrication and design methodologies.EEC 118Digital Integrated Circuits
Sign upAnalysis and design of digital integrated circuits. Emphasis on MOS logic circuit families. Logic gate construction, voltage transfer characteristics, propagation delay, and power consumption. Regenerative circuits, sequential elements, interconnect, RAMs, ROMs, and PLAs.EEC 130AElectromagnetics I
Sign upBasics of static electric and magnetic fields and fields in materials. Work and scalar potential. Maxwell's equations in integral and differential form. Plan waves in lossless media. Lossless transmission lines.EEC 130BIntroductory Electromagnetics II
Sign upPlane wave propagation in lossy media, reflections, guided waves, simple modulated waves and dispersion, and basic antennas.EEC 132ARF & Microwaves in Wireless Communication
Sign upStudy of Radio Frequency and Microwave theory and practice for design of wireless electronic systems. Transmission lines, microwave integrated circuits, circuit analyis of electromagnetic energy transfer systems, the scattering parameters.EEC 132BRF & Microwaves in Wireless Communication
Sign upPassive RF and microwave device analysis, design, fabrication, and testing for wireless applications. RF and microwave filter and coupler design. Introductory analysis and design of RF and microwave transistor amplifiers.EEC 132CRF & Microwaves in Wireless Communications
Sign upRF and microwave amplifier theory and design, including transistor circuit models, stability considerations, noise models and low noise design. Theory and design of microwave transistor oscillators and mixers. Wireless system design and analysis.EEC 133Electromagnetic Radiation & Antenna Analysis
Sign upProperties of electromagnetic radiation; analysis and design of antennas: ideal, small loop, aperture, and arrays; antenna simulations/measurements.EEC 134ARF/Microwave Systems Design
Sign upBoard-level RF design, fabrication, and characterization of an RF/microwave system, including the antenna, RF front-end, baseband, mix-signal circuits, and digital signal processing models.EEC 134BRF/Microwave Systems Design
Sign upBoard-level RF design, fabrication, and characterization of an RF/microwave system, including the antenna, RF front-end, baseband, mix-signal circuits, and digital signal processing models.EEC 135Optoelectronics for High-Speed Data Networking & Computing Systems
Sign upPrinciples of optical communication systems. Planar dielectric waveguides. Optical fibers. Silicon photonics. Attenuation and dispersion in optical fibers. Optical sources, detectors, transmitters, receivers, modulators, optical amplifiers, and optical multiplexers/demultiplexers. Optics in data centers and computing systems.EEC 136AElectronic Design Project
Sign upOptical, electronic and communication-engineering design of an opto-electronic system operating under performance and economic constraints. Measurement techniques will be designed and implemented, and the system will be characterized.EEC 140APrinciples of Device Physics I
Sign upSemiconductor device fundamentals, equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics, conductivity, diffusion, electrons and holes, p-n and Schottky junctions, first-order metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field effect transistors, bipolar junction transistor fundamentals.EEC 140BPrinciples of Device Physics II
Sign upElectrical properties, designs, models and advanced concepts for MOS, Bipolar, and Junction Field-Effect Transistors, including scaling, minority-carrier distributions, non-ideal effects, and device fabrication methods. MESFET and heterojunction bipolar transistors (HBTs).EEC 145Electronic Materials
Sign upElectronic and physical properties of materials used in electronics, ICs, optoelectronics and MEMS. Semiconductors, dielectrics, metals, optical materials, organic semiconductive, optical and nonlinear properties, as well as their synthesis and deposition methods.EEC 146AIntegrated Circuits Fabrication
Sign upTheoretical and experimental study of basic fabrication processes for metal oxide semiconductor integrated circuits, including oxidation, photolithography, impurity diffusion, metallization, wet chemical etching, and characterization.EEC 146BAdvanced Integrated Circuits Fabrication
Sign upFabrication processes for CMOS VLSI. Laboratory projects examine deposition of thin films, ion implantation, process simulation, anisotropic plasma etching, sputter metallization, and C-V analysis. Topics include isolation, projection alignment, epilayer growth, thin gate oxidation, and rapid thermal annealing.EEC 150 Introduction to Signals & Systems
Sign upCharacterization and analysis of continuous-time linear systems. Fourier series and transforms with applications. Introduction to communication systems. Transfer functions and block diagrams. Elements of feedback systems. Stability of linear systems.EEC 151Digital Signals & Systems
Sign upCharacterization and analysis of discrete time systems. Difference equation models. Z-transform analysis methods. Frequency Analysis. Discrete and fast Fourier transforms. Digital Filtering.EEC 152Digital Signal Processing
Sign upTheory and practice of real-time digital signal processing. Fundamentals of real-time systems. Programmable architectures including I/O, memory, peripherals, interrupts, DMA. Interfacing issues with A/D and D/A converters to a programmable DSP. Specification driven design and implementation of simple DSP applications.EEC 157AControl Systems
Sign upAnalysis and design of feedback control systems. Examples are drawn from electrical and mechanical systems as well as other engineering fields. Mathematical modeling of systems, stability criteria, root-locus and frequency domain design methods.EEC 157BControl Systems
Sign upControl system design; transfer-function and state-space methods; sampled-data implementation, digital control. Laboratory includes feedback system experiments and simulation studies.EEC 160Signal Analysis & Communications
Sign upSignal analysis based on Fourier methods. Fourier series and transforms; time-sampling, convolution, and filtering; spectral density; modulation: carrier-amplitude, carrier-frequency, and pulse-amplitude.EEC 161Probabilistic Analysis of Electrical & Computer Systems
Sign upProbabilistic and statistical analysis of electrical and computer systems. Discrete and continuous random variables, expectation and moments. Transformation of random variables. Joint and conditional densities. Limit theorems and statistics. Noise models, system reliability and testing.EEC 165Statistical & Digital Communication
Sign upIntroduction to random process models of modulated signals and noise, and analysis of receiver performance. Analog and digitally modulated signals. Signal-to-noise ratio, probability of error, matched filters. Intersymbol interference, pulse shaping and equalization. Carrier and clock synchronization.EEC 170Introduction to Computer Architecture
Sign upIntroduces basic aspects of computer architecture, including computer performance measurement, instruction set design, computer arithmetic, pipelined/non-pipelined implementation, and memory hierarchies (cache and virtual memory).EEC 171Parallel Computer Architecture
Sign upOrganization and design of parallel processors including shared-memory multiprocessors, cache coherence, memory consistency, snooping protocols, synchronization, scalable multiprocessors, message passing protocols, distributed shared memory and interconnection networks.EEC 172Embedded Systems
Sign upIntroduction to embedded-system hardware and software. Topics include: embedded processor and memory architecture; input/output hardware and software, including interrupts and direct memory access; interfacing with sensors and actuators; wired and wireless embedded networking.EEC 173AComputer Networks
Sign upOverview of computer networks, TCP/IP protocol suite, computer-networking applications and protocols, transport-layer protocols, network architectures, Internet Protocol (IP), routing, link-layer protocols, local area and wireless networks, medium access control, physical aspects of data transmission, and network-performance analysis.EEC 173BAdvanced Topics in Computer Networks
Sign upAdvanced topics in computer networks, wireless networks, multimedia networking, traffic analysis and modeling, network design and management, network simulation and performance analysis, and design projects in communication networks.EEC 174AYApplied Machine Learning
Sign upApplied machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) in engineering systems. Team project including a final presentation and report.EEC 180Digital Systems II
Sign upComputer-aided design of digital systems with emphasis on hardware description languages (VHDL), logic synthesis, and field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA). May cover advanced topics in digital system design such as static timing analysis, pipelining, memory system design, testing digital circuits.EEC 181ADigital Systems Design Project
Sign upDigital-system and computer-engineering design course involving architecture, design, implementation and testing of a prototype application-specific processor under given design constraints. Team project includes a final presentation and report.EEC 183Testing & Verification of Digital Systems
Sign upComputer aided-testing and design verification techniques for digital systems; physical fault testing; simulation-based design verification; formal verification; timing analysis.EEC 201Digital Signal Processing
Sign upTheory and design of digital filters. Classification of digital filters, linear phase systems, all-pass functions, FIR and IIR filter design methods and optimality measures, numerically robust structures for digital filters.EEC 205Computational Methods in Biomedical Imaging
Sign upAnalytic tomographic reconstruction from projections in 2D and 3D; model-based image reconstruction methods; maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods; applications to CT, PET, and SPECT.EEC 206Digital Image Processing
Sign upTwo-dimensional systems theory, image perception, sampling and quantization, transform theory and applications, enhancement, filtering and restoration, image analysis, and image processing systems.EEC 210MOS Analog Circuit Design
Sign upAnalysis and design of MOS amplifiers, bias circuits, voltage references and other analog circuits. Stability and compensation of feedback amplifiers. Introduction to noise analysis in MOS circuits.EEC 211Advanced Analog Circuit Design
Sign upNoise and distortion in electronic circuits and systems. Application to communication circuits. Specific applications include mixers, low-noise amplifiers, power amplifiers, phase-locked loops, oscillators and receiver architectures.EEC 212Analog MOS IC Design for Signal Processing
Sign upAnalysis and design of analog MOS integrated circuits. Passive components, Single-ended and fully differential op amps, Sampled-data and continuous-time filters.EEC 213Data-Conversion Techniques & Circuits
Sign upDigital-to-analog and analog-to-digital conversion; component characteristics and matching; sample-and-hold, comparator, amplifier, and reference circuits.EEC 214Integrated Circuit Design for Power Electronics
Sign upIC design for power electronics. Linear and switching regulation. Integrated power management. DC/DC and AC/DC conversion. Applications in portable electronics and wireless sensors.EEC 215Circuits for Digital Communications
Sign upAnalog, digital, and mixed-signal CMOS implementations of communication-circuit blocks: gain control, adaptive equalizers, sampling detectors, clock recovery.EEC 216Low Power Digital Integrated Circuit Design
Sign upIntegrated circuit design for low power and energy consumption. Low power architectures, logic styles and circuit design. Variable supply and threshold voltages. Leakage management. Power estimation. Energy sources, power electronics, and energy recovery. Applications in portable electronics and sensors. Thermodynamic limits.EEC 221Radio Frequency & Microwave Filter Design
Sign upDesign of radio frequency and microwave filters including filter specification and approximation theory. Passive LC filter design covers doubly-terminated reactance two-port synthesis and coupling matrix based synthesis. Active filter design includes sensitivity, op-amp building blocks, and cascade filter design.EEC 222RF IC Design
Sign upRadio frequency (RF) solid-state devices, RF device modeling and design rules; non-linear RF circuit design techniques; use of non-linear computer-aided (CAD) tools; RF power amplifier design.EEC 223RF Integrated Circuits for Wireless Communications
Sign upIntegrated RF front end circuit design of receivers and synthesizers for wireless communications, such as LNA, mixers, PLL; noise and linearity analysis and specifications; theory and working mechanism of synthesizers and phase noise analysis.EEC 224Terahertz & mm-Wave Integrated Circuit Design
Sign upFundamental theory of RF transmitter and receiver, including noise analysis, transceiver architectures, and antenna arrays. Fundamental limitations, theory and design of amplifiers, oscillators and signal sources at THz and mm-wave frequencies.EEC 228Advanced Microwave Circuit & Device Design Techniques
Sign upTheory, design, fabrication, analysis of advanced microwave circuits and devices. Wideband transformers, stripline/microstripline broadband couplers. Lumped and distributed filter synthesis. Broadband matching theory applied to microwave devices. Wideband and low noise FET/HEMT amplifiers. Advanced microwave oscillator theory.EEC 229RF-MEMS & Adaptive Wireless Frontends
Sign upFocuses on the modeling, design, fabrication, and characterization of RF-MEMS while providing a thorough introduction to the technology with an emphasis on how it will benefit the design of adaptive RF/microwave wireless systems.EEC 230Electromagnetics
Sign upMaxwell's equations, plane waves, reflection and refraction, complex waves, waveguides, resonant cavities, and basic antennas.EEC 231APlasma Physics & Controlled Fusion I
Sign upEquilibrium plasma properties; single particle motion; fluid equations; waves & instabilities in a fluid plasma; plasma kinetic theory & transport coefficients; linear & nonlinear Vlasov theory; fluctuations, correlations & radiation; inertial & magnetic confinement systems in controlled fusion.EEC 231BPlasma Physics & Controlled Fusion II
Sign upEquilibrium plasma properties; single particle motion; fluid equations; waves & instabilities in a fluid plasma; plasma kinetic theory & transport coefficients; linear & nonlinear Vlasov theory; fluctuations, correlations & radiation; inertial & magnetic confinement systems in controlled fusion.EEC 231CPlasma Physics & Controlled Fusion III
Sign upEquilibrium plasma properties; single particle motion; fluid equations; waves & instabilities in a fluid plasma; plasma kinetic theory & transport coefficients; linear & nonlinear Vlasov theory; fluctuations, correlations & radiation; inertial & magnetic confinement systems in controlled fusion.EEC 232AAdvanced Applied Electromagnetics I
Sign upThe exact formulation of applied electromagnetic problems using Green's functions. Applications of these techniques to transmission circuits.EEC 232BAdvanced Applied Electromagnetics II
Sign upAn advanced treatment of electromagnetics with applications to passive microwave devices and antennas.EEC 233High Speed Signal Integrity
Sign upDesign and analysis of interconnects in high-speed circuits and sub-systems; understanding of high-speed signal propagation and signal integrity concepts; electromagnetic modeling tools and experimental techniques.EEC 234APhysics & Technology of Microwave Vacuum Electron Beam Devices I
Sign upPhysics & technology of electron beam emission, flow and transport, electron gun design, space charge waves & klystrons with applications to accelerator systems, RF power sources for radar & communication systems, thermionic energy conversion, and electric space propulsion.EEC 234BPhysics & Technology of Microwave Vacuum Electron Beam Devices II
Sign upTheory, modeling, & experimental design of traveling wave tubes, backward wave oscillators, and extended interaction oscillators employed in satellite commutations, plasma imaging, and underground imaging systems.EEC 234CPhysics & Technology of Microwave Vacuum Electron Beam Devices III
Sign upPhysics & technology of gyrotrons, gyro-amplifiers, free electron lasers, magnetrons, cross-field amplifiers, and relativistic devices employed in plasma fusion reactors, microwave heating, and high power microwave applications.EEC 235Photonics
Sign upOptical propagation of electromagnetic waves and beams in photonic components and the design of such devices using numerical techniques.EEC 236Nonlinear Optical Applications
Sign upNonlinear optical interactions in optical communication, optical information processing and integrated optics. Basic concepts underlying optical nonlinear interactions in materials and guided media.EEC 237ALasers
Sign upTheoretical and practical description of lasers. Theory of population inversion, amplification and oscillation using semiclassical oscillator model and rate equations. Description and design of real laser system.EEC 237BLaser Physics II
Sign upOscillation threshold. Coupled cavity/atomic rate equations, Linear pulse propagation; dispersion, broadening, compression. Nonlinear pulse propagation. Energy extraction. Optical beams, resonators, eigenmodes, axial/transverse modes. Paraxial ray optics, resonator stability, ABCD matrices.EEC 238Semiconductor Lasers & Photonic Integration
Sign upUnderstanding of fundamental optical transitions in semiconductors and quantum-confined systems are applied to diode & unipolar lasers and selected photonic devices. The importance of radiative and non-radiative recombination, simulated emission, excitons in quantum wells, and strained quantum layers are considered.EEC 239AOptical Communication Technologies for High-Speed Data Networking
Sign upEnabling technologies for optical fiber communication and data center networks. Physical layer issues for component and system technologies in high-speed data optical communications. High-capacity data multiplexing technologies including wavelength-division-multiplexing, time-division-multiplexing, and advanced coherent modulation.EEC 239BHigh-Capacity Optical Data Systems & Networks
Sign upHigh-capacity optical data systems and networks, built-on modern optical communication technologies. Technologies behind data center networking, software defined networking, and RF-optical networking. Physical layer issues in light of networking architectures and protocols. Optical communications systems design and integration.EEC 240Semiconductor Device Physics
Sign upPhysical principles, characteristics and models of fundamental semiconductor device types, including P-N and Schottky diodes, MOSFETs and MESFETs Bipolar Junction Transistors, and light emitters/detectors.EEC 241Introduction to Molecular Electronics
Sign upExamines molecules for electronic devices and sensors. Covers: electronic states of molecules, charge transport in nanoscale systems, and fabrication and measurement of molecular-scale devices. Specific Topics: Hartree-Fock & Density Functional Theory, Landauer formalism, coulomb blockade, tunneling and hopping transport.EEC 242Advanced Nanostructured Devices
Sign upPhysics of nano-structured materials and device operation. Overview of new devices enabled by nanotechnology; fabrication and characterization methods; applications of nano-structures and devices.EEC 243Optical Imaging & Microscopy
Sign upTheory and techniques of optical imaging & microscopy. Fourier optics; light propagation & light detection; imaging contrast mechanisms; optical & microscopy techniques.EEC 245Micro- & Nano-Technology in Life Sciences
Sign upSurvey of biodevice design from engineering and biological perspectives; micro-/nano-fabrication techniques; surface science and mass transport; essential biological processes and models; proposal development skills on merging aforementioned themes.EEC 247Advanced Semiconductor Devices
Sign upSemiconductor devices, including MOSFETs, heterojunction transistors, light-emitting diodes, lasers, sensors, detectors, power and high-voltage transistors, MEMS resonators, organic semiconductors and photovoltaics.EEC 248Photovoltaics & Solar Cells
Sign upPhysics and application of photovoltaics and solar cells, including design, fabrication technology, and grid incorporation. Mono and microcrystalline silicon devices; thin-film technologies, heterojunction and organic-semiconductor technologies. Collectors, electrical inverters and infrastructure issues. Challenges and concerns.EEC 249Nanofabrication
Sign upTheory and practice of nanofabrication (top-down and bottom-up approaches), used for producing integrated circuits, electronic devices, sensors, and microstructures. Process development and characterization.EEC 250Linear Systems & Signals
Sign upMathematical description of systems. Selected topics in linear algebra. Solution of the state equations and an analysis of stability, controllability, observability, realizations, state feedback and state estimation. Discrete-time signals and systems, and the Z-transform.EEC 251Nonlinear Systems
Sign upNonlinear differential equations, second-order systems, approximation methods, bifurcations, Lyapunov stability, absolute stability, Popov criterion, circle criterion, sliding-mode control, feedback linearization techniques.EEC 252Multivariable Control System Design
Sign upReview of single-loop feedback design. Stability, performance and robustness of multi-input multi-output control systems. H-infinity design. Frequency response methods. Optimization-based design. Algebraic design methods for uncertain systems.EEC 254Optimization
Sign upModeling optimization problems in engineering design and other applications; optimality conditions; unconstrained optimization (gradient, Newton, conjugate gradient and quasi-Newton methods); duality and Lagrangian relaxation constrained optimization. (Primal method and an introduction to penalty and augmented Lagrangian methods.).EEC 255Robotic Systems
Sign upIntroduction to robotic systems. Mechanical manipulators, kinematics, manipulator positioning and path planning. Dynamics of manipulators. Robot motion programming and control algorithm design.EEC 256Reinforcement Learning
Sign upReinforcement Learning (RL) is the subset of machine learning, the core of artificial intelligence. Topics include fundamentals of RL, bandit problems, Markov decision processes, and dynamic programming.EEC 260Random Signals & Noise
Sign upRandom processes as probabilistic models for signals and noise. Probability and random variables, Convergence and limit theorems, Specification of random processes, Markov Chains, Wiener process and white Gaussian noise, Poisson process and shot noise, Processing and frequency analysis of random signals.EEC 261Signal Processing for Communications
Sign upSignal processing in wireless and wireline communication systems. Characterization and distortion of wireless and wireline channels. Channel equalization and maximum likelihood sequence estimation. Channel precoding and pre-equalization. OFDM and transmit diversity. Array processing.EEC 262Multi-access Communications Theory
Sign upMaximum stable throughput of Poisson collision channels. Classic collision resolution algorithms. Carrier sensing multiple access and its performance analysis. System stability analysis. Joint design of the physical/medium access control layers. Capacity region of multi-access channels. Multi-access with correlated sources.EEC 263Optimal & Adaptive Filtering
Sign upGeometric formulation of least-squares estimation problems. Theory and applications of optimum Wiener and Kalman filtering. MAP and maximum likelihood estimation of hidden Markov models, Viterbi algorithm. Adaptive filtering algorithms, properties and applications.EEC 264Estimation & Detection of Signals in Noise
Sign upIntroduction to parameter estimation and detections of signals in noise. Bayes and Neyman-Pearson likelihood-ratio tests for signal detection. Maximum-likelihood parameter estimation. Detection of known and Gaussian signals in white or colored noise. Applications to communications, radar, signal processing.EEC 265Principles of Digital Communications
Sign upIntroduction to digital communications. Coding for analog sources. Characterization of signals and systems. Modulation and demodulation for the additive Gaussian channel. Digital signaling over bandwidth-constrained linear filter channels and over fading multipath channels. Spread spectrum signals.EEC 266Information Theory & Coding
Sign upTopics include Entropy, Relatively Entropy, Mutual Information; Asymptotic Equipartition Property; Entropy Rates of Stochastic Process; Data Compression; Channel Capacity; Differential Entropy; Gaussian Channel; Rate Distortion Theory; Network Information Theory.EEC 267Mobile Communications
Sign upTime-varying multi-path fading channel models and receiver performance in fading channels; multiple access techniques and multiple access receivers design and performance; optimum design and the capacity of wireless channels.EEC 269AError Correcting Codes I
Sign upIntroduction to the theory and practice of block codes, linear block codes, cyclic codes, decoding algorithms, coding techniques.EEC 269BError Correcting Codes II
Sign upIntroduction to convolutional codes, turbo codes, trellis and block coded modulation codes,soft-decision decoding algorithms, the Viterbi algorithm,reliability-based decoding, trellis-based decoding, multistage decoding.EEC 270Computer Architecture
Sign upIntroduction to modern techniques for high-performance single and multiple processor systems. Topics include advanced pipeline design, advanced memory hierarchy design, optimizing pipeline and memory use, and memory sharing among multiprocessors. Case studies of recent single and multiple processor systems.EEC 272High-Performance Computer Architecture
Sign upDesigning and analysis of high performance computer architecture with emphasis on vector processing, on-chip interconnect networks, chip-level multiprocessors, memory and storage subsystem design and impact of technological advances on computer architecture.EEC 273Networking Architecture & Resource Management
Sign upDesign & implementation principles of networking architecture and protocols. Internet, data center, and telephony case studies.EEC 279Modern Parallel Computing
Sign upExploration of the architecture of modern parallel computers, their programming models, and their programming systems.EEC 281VLSI Digital Signal Processing
Sign upDigital signal processors, building blocks, and algorithms. Design and implementation of processor algorithms, architectures, control, functional units, and circuit topologies for increased performance and reduced circuit size and power dissipation.EEC 283Advanced Design Verification of Digital Systems
Sign upDesign verification techniques for digital systems; simulation-based design verification techniques; formal verification techniques, including equivalence checking, model checking, and theorem proving; timing analysis and verification; application of design cerification techniques to microprocessors.EEC 284Design & Optimization of Embedded Computing Systems
Sign upIntroduction to design and optimization of digital computing systems for embedded applications.EEC 286Introduction to Digital System Testing
Sign upReview of several current techniques used to detect physical faults in both combinational and sequential circuits. Topics include fault modeling, fault simulation, test generation, compression techniques, and testing architectures.
EME21 courses
EME 001Mechanical Engineering
Sign upDescription of the field of mechanical engineering with examples taken from industrial applications, discussions of the practice with respect to engineering principles, ethics, and responsibilities.EME 005Computer Programming for Engineering Applications
Sign upStructured programming in C for solving problems in engineering. Introduction to MATLAB and comparison study of C/C++ with MATLAB.EME 050Manufacturing Processes
Sign upModern manufacturing methods, safety, manufacturing instructions, computer-aided manufacturing and their role in the engineering design and development process.EME 106Thermo-Fluid Dynamics
Sign upInviscid incompressible flow, compressible flow, ideal gas mixtures, psychrometrics, reacting mixtures and combustion.EME 108Measurement Systems
Sign upExperiments to illustrate principles of mechanical systems. Signal analysis; Demonstration of basic sensors for mechanical systems; Experimental project design; Experiments involving voltage measurement; strain gauges, dynamic systems of 1st order.EME 109Experimental Methods for Thermal Fluids
Sign upExperiments illustrating principles of thermal-fluid systems and related measurement devices. Statistical design of experiments and uncertainty analysis of data; thermodynamic cycles, combustion, compressible and incompressible flows.EME 115Introduction to Numerical Analysis & Methods
Sign upNumber representation, Taylor expansions, error and stability analysis, roots of nonlinear equations, sets of linear equations, numerical integration, ordinary differential equations.EME 121Engineering Applications of Dynamics
Sign upTechnical elective that revisits dynamic principles with emphasis on engineering applications; Equations of motion are derived and put into a format for computer solution; There is a computer laboratory where real engineering systems are simulated.EME 134Vehicle Stability
Sign upAnalytical and experimental studies of the dynamics, stability and control of vehicles such as cars, trailers, airplanes, motorcycles, bicycles and rail cars.EME 139Stability of Flexible Dynamic Systems
Sign upStability of flexible systems. Introduction to fluid-structure interaction. Mechanical vibrations. Design of mechanical subsystems or systems under constraints. Dynamic instabilities. Flutter. Control effectiveness. Energy extraction from fluid-structure interactions. Design applications to aerospace, mechanical and biomedical systems.EME 150AMechanical Design
Sign upPrinciples of mechanics applied to design. Deformation and stress analysis. Structural integrity under static and fluctuating loads. Projects demonstrate progression from concept to engineering analysis, with emphasis on strength and durability.EME 150BMechanical Design
Sign upPrinciples of engineering mechanics applied to the design and selection of mechanical components. Design projects, which concentrate on conceptual design, engineering analysis, methods of manufacture, material selection, and cost.EME 151Statistical Methods in Design & Manufacturing
Sign upMethods of statistical analysis with emphasis on applications in mechanical design and manufacturing. Applications include product evaluation and decision making, probabilistic design, systems reliability, and fatigue under random loading.EME 152Computer-Aided Mechanism Design
Sign upPrinciples of computer-aided mechanism design. Computer-aided kinematic, static, and dynamic analysis and design of planar mechanisms such as multiple-loop linkages and geared linkages. Introduction to kinematic synthesis of mechanisms.EME 154Mechatronics
Sign upOverview of mechatronics system and control system design concepts, control software architecture, control hardware architecture, microcontroller and interface technology for mechatronics control, sensor for mechatronics systems, actuator drives.EME 161Combustion & the Environment
Sign upIntroduction to combustion kinetics; premixed and diffusion flames; turbulent combustion; pollutant formation; examples of combustion devices such as internal combustion engines, gas turbines, furnaces and incinerators; alternative fuels.EME 163Internal Combustion Engines & Future Alternatives
Sign upFundamentals of internal combustion engine design and performance. Future needs to adapt to environmental concerns, and the feasibility of better alternatives in the future.EME 164Introduction to Heating, Ventilation & Air Conditioning Systems
Sign upIntroduction to basic mechanisms and processes associated with heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), including equipment and systems used for HVAC in residential and commercial buildings.EME 165Heat Transfer
Sign upConduction, convection, and radiation heat transfer. Computational modeling of heat transfer in engineering. Applications to engineering equipment with the use of digital computers.EME 171Analysis, Simulation & Design of Mechatronic Systems
Sign upModeling of dynamic engineering systems in various energy domains. Analysis and design of dynamic systems. Response of linear systems. Digital computer simulation and physical experiments.EME 172Automatic Control of Engineering Systems
Sign upClassical feedback control systems; block diagrams; performance specifications; steady state errors; rise and settling times; root locus; PID controllers; Bode and Nyquist plots; stability; phase and gain margins; advanced topics as time allows.
EMS32 courses
EMS 002Materials Marvels: The Science of Superheroes
Sign upIntroduction to science and technology of materials as key engineering ingredients. Explores the relationship between art and materials, and how superheroes are both products and resources of ideas for new materials' technologies.EMS 147Principles of Polymer Materials Science
Sign upBasic principles of polymer science presented including polymer structure and synthesis; polymerization mechanisms, polymer classes, properties, and reactions; polymer morphology, rheology, and characterization; polymer processing.EMS 160Thermodynamics of Materials
Sign upReview of thermodynamic principles of interest to materials scientists and engineers. Application of thermodynamics to material processing, phase stability, corrosion.EMS 162Structure & Characterization of Engineering Materials
Sign upDescription of the structure of engineering materials on the atomic scale by exploring the fundamentals of crystallography. Importance of this structure to materials' properties. Description of experimental determination using x-ray diffraction techniques.EMS 162LStructure & Characterization of Materials Laboratory
Sign upExperimental investigations of structure of solid materials are combined with techniques for characterization of materials. Laboratory exercises emphasize methods used to study structure of solids at the atomic and microstructural levels. Methods focus on optical, x-ray and electron techniques.EMS 164Kinetics of Materials
Sign upBasic kinetic laws and the principles governing phase transformations. Applications in diffusion, oxidation, nucleation, growth and spinodal transformations.EMS 170Sustainable Energy Technologies: Batteries, Fuel Cells, & Photovoltaic Cells
Sign upBasic principles of future energy devices such as lithium batteries, fuel cells, and photovoltaic cells. Examines the current status of these energy technologies and analyze challenges that still must be overcome.EMS 170LSustainable Energy Technologies Laboratory
Sign upFundaments of manufacturing and characterization of energy devices, such as lithium batteries, fuel cells and photovoltaic cells. Discussion on limiting factors in the performance of the devices.EMS 172Smart Materials
Sign upElectronic, optical, and magnetic properties of materials as related to structure and processing of solid state materials. Physical principles for understanding the properties of metals, semiconductors, ceramics, and amorphous solids and the applications of these materials in engineering.EMS 172LSmart Materials Laboratory
Sign upExperimental investigation of electronic, optical and magnetic properties of engineering materials, emphasizing the fundamental relationship between microstructure and properties as well as the influence of rate processes on the evolution of the microstructure and properties.EMS 174Mechanical Behavior of Materials
Sign upMicroscopic and macroscopic aspects of the mechanical behavior of engineering materials, with emphasis on recent development in materials characterization by nondestructive testing. Fundamental aspects of plasticity in engineering materials, strengthening mechanisms and mechanical failure modes of materials systems.EMS 174LMechanical Behavior Laboratory
Sign upExperimental investigation of mechanical behavior of engineering materials. Laboratory exercises emphasize the fundamental relationship between microstructure and mechanical properties, and the evolution of the microstructure as a consequence of rate process.EMS 180Materials in Engineering Design
Sign upQuantitative treatment of materials selection for engineering applications. Discussion of design & material selection strategy; process & process selection strategy; process economics; life-cycle thinking & eco-design. Use of materials selection software.EMS 181Manufacturing of 3D & Composite Materials
Sign upFundamental physical and chemical principles underlying various processing techniques, used in manufacturing processes for bulk (3D) and composite structural and functional materials. Effects of processing variables on structure-property relationships.EMS 182Failure Analysis
Sign upAnalysis of the way materials fail. Effects of temperature, mechanical deformation and corrosion on the properties of materials. forensics and methodologies for investigating failures of materials including optical microscopy, x-ray analysis and scanning electron microscopy. Investigation of practical problems.EMS 183Processing of 2D & Nanomaterials
Sign upFundamentals of processing methods for two-dimensional materials, including thin films and graphene-like materials; as well as nanomaterials, including nanoparticles, nanowires, and quantum dots.EMS 230Fundamentals of Electron Microscopy
Sign upPrinciples and techniques of scanning and transmission of electron microscopy used in the study of materials will be described. Emphasis upon practical applications.EMS 230LLaboratory for Electron Microscopy
Sign upPractical application of techniques of electron scanning and transmission microscopy including x-ray microanalysis.EMS 244Interaction of Materials & their Environment
Sign upThermodynamic and kinetic foundations of the corrosion and oxidation processes. Practical aspects of corrosion control and prevention. Stress-corrosion and gas-embrittlement phenomena. Special topics in corrosion; microbiological and atmospheric corrosion.EMS 245Micro- & Nano-Technology in Life Sciences
Sign upSurvey of biodevice design from engineering and biological perspectives; micro-/nano-fabrication techniques; surface science and mass transport; essential biological processes and models; proposal development skills on merging aforementioned themes.EMS 246Photovoltaics & Solar Cells
Sign upPhysics and application of photovoltaics and solar cells, including design, fabrication technology, and grid incorporation. Mono and microcrystalline silicon devices; thin-film technologies, heterojunction and organic-semiconductor technologies. Collectors, electrical inverters and infrastructure issues. Challenges and concerns.EMS 248Fracture of Engineering Materials
Sign upDescription of the failure of materials by crack propagation. Topics include the stress fields about elastic cracks, the Griffith-Irwin analysis, descriptions of plastic zones, fracture toughness testing, microstructural aspects of fracture and failure at elevated temperatures.EMS 249Mechanisms of Fatigue
Sign upMicrostructural description of the mechanisms of fatigue in metals. Topics include a phenomenological treatment of cyclic deformation, dislocation processes in cyclic deformation, fatigue crack nucleation, Stage I growth, threshold effects and high temperature cyclic deformation.EMS 260Advanced Thermodynamics of Solids
Sign upThermodynamic principles, formalism and their application to solid materials. Statistical mechanics and the relations between microscopic and macroscopic properties. Prediction of phase diagrams and phase stability, particularly for solids.EMS 262Advanced Topics in Structure of Materials
Sign upElectronic structure and crystal structure of engineering materials on the atomic scale with a detailed discussion of crystallography. Types of bonding, distinction between band structures of metals, semiconductors, and insulators. Symmetry elements, point and space groups, and common crystal structures.EMS 264Transport Phenomena in Materials Processes
Sign upThermodynamic driving forces and atomic-scale mechanisms underlying diffusive mass transport and interface motion in materials. Nucleation, growth and coarsening dynamics of phase transformations.EMS 268Advanced Materials Characterization
Sign upFundamental working principles for characterization methods used in structural and compositional analysis of engineering materials. Topics include x-ray, electron, ion, and neutron interactions with materials and techniques include diffraction, spectroscopy, and imaging methods.EMS 272Advanced Functional Properties of Materials
Sign upFundamental physical properties of solid materials important to solid state devices, specifically electronic, magnetic, and optical properties. Topics include band structures, metals, superconductors, semiconductors, dielectrics, optical properties, and magnetic properties and implementation of these properties into devices.EMS 274Advanced Mechanical Properties of Materials
Sign upComprehensive study of mechanical properties of materials, with special attention to dislocations and deformation and fracture control mechanisms. Mechanical properties of conventional engineering materials as well as advanced materials such as nanocrystalline solids and thin films are considered.EMS 282Glass: Science & Technology
Sign upModern paradigms in glass science and their applications to technologies. Relation of macroscopic properties of glasses and glass-forming liquids to atomic-level structures, including principles of formation, relaxation, transport phenomena, nucleation, crystallization and phase separation in glasses.EMS 285Advanced Computational Materials Science
Sign upCapabilities and limitations of modern approaches in computational materials science. Implementation and use of these approaches. Molecular dynamics, cellular automata, and phase field techniques.EMS 288Living Matter: Physical Biology of the Cell
Sign upIntroduction to the origin, maintenance, and regulation of the dynamic architecture of the cell, including cellular modes of organization, dynamics and energy dissipation, molecular transport, motility, regulation, and adaptability.
ENG27 courses
ENG 001Introduction to Engineering
Sign upIntroduction to the role of engineers in the acquisition and development of engineering knowledge, the differences and similarities among engineering fields, and the work ethic and skills required for engineering.ENG 003Introduction to Engineering Design
Sign upIntroduction to the engineering design process that incorporates the development of oral and written communication skills integral to the design process. Conducted in workshop format with hands-on engagement in the design process.ENG 004Engineering Graphics in Design
Sign upEngineering design, descriptive geometry, pictorial sketching, computer-aided graphics, and their application in the solution of engineering problems.ENG 006Engineering Problem Solving
Sign upMethodology for solving engineering problems. Engineering computing and visualization based on MATLAB. Engineering examples and applications.ENG 008Introduction to Entrepreneurship
Sign upStudents from all majors will learn the processes involved in modern entrepreneurship and identify an opportunity for innovation. The 3 C's of the entrepreneurial mindset (developed by KEEN) will be covered: Curiosity, Connections, and Creating Values.ENG 010The Science Behind the Technology in Our Lives
Sign upUnderstanding of how the technology in our lives works using only basic concepts and rudimentry mathematics.ENG 011AIssues in Engineering
Sign upEngineering profession and its role in society; engineering design and development process; introduction to the engineering grand challenges; and professional resources for students.ENG 017Circuits I
Sign upBasic electric circuit analysis techniques, including electrical quantities and elements, resistive circuits, transient and steady-state responses of RLC circuits, sinusoidal excitation and phasors, and complex frequency and network functions.ENG 020Introduction to Space Exploration: Understanding the Technological & Environmental Challenges
Sign upIntroductory overview of the space environment. Discussion of space exploration technology including propulsion, orbital mechanics, and spacecraft engineering.ENG 035Statics
Sign upForce systems and equilibrium conditions with emphasis on engineering problems.ENG 045Properties of Materials
Sign upIntroduction to the properties of engineering materials and their relation to the internal structure of materials.ENG 045YProperties of Materials
Sign upIntroduction to the properties of engineering materials and their relation to the internal structure of materials.ENG 100Electronic Circuits & Systems
Sign upIntroduction to analog and digital circuit and system design through hands on laboratory design projects.ENG 102Dynamics
Sign upKinematics and kinetics of particles, systems of particles, and of rigid bodies; application of these topics are applied to engineering problems.ENG 103Fluid Mechanics
Sign upFluid properties, fluid statics, continuity and linear momentum equations for control volumes, flow of incompressible fluids in pipes, dimensional analysis and boundary-layer flows.ENG 104Mechanics of Materials
Sign upUniaxial loading and deformation. General concepts of stress-strain-temperature relations and yield criteria. Torsion of shafts. Bending of beams. Deflections due to bending. Introduction to stability and buckling.ENG 104LMechanics of Materials Laboratory
Sign upExperiments which illustrate the basic principles and verify the analysis procedures used in the mechanics of materials are performed using the basic tools and techniques of experimental stress analysis.ENG 105Thermodynamics
Sign upFundamentals of thermodynamics: heat energy and work, properties of pure substances, First and Second Law for closed and open systems, reversibility, entropy, thermodynamic temperature scales. Applications of thermodynamics to engineering systems. May be taught abroad.ENG 106Engineering Economics
Sign upAnalysis of problems in engineering economy; the selection of alternatives; replacement decisions. Compounding, tax, origins and cost of capital, economic life, and risk and uncertainty are applied to methods of selecting most economic alternatives.ENG 108Launching a Company
Sign upTechnological innovation and product development. Working as a team to turn ideas into companies through customer development.ENG 111Electric Machinery Fundamentals
Sign upPrinciples of AC and DC electric motors and generators, their control systems and power sources. Selection of electric power equipment components based on their construction features and performance characteristics.ENG 121Fluid Power Actuators & Systems
Sign upHydraulic and pneumatic systems with emphasis on analysis and control of actuators. Design of hydraulic and pneumatic systems, specification and sizing of components, and selection of electro-hydraulics/electro-pneumatics, servo valves, and closed loop systems to solve basic control problems.ENG 122Introduction to Mechanical Vibrations
Sign upFree and forced vibrations in lumped-parameter systems with and without damping; vibrations in coupled systems; electromechanical analogs; use of energy conservation principles.ENG 160Environmental Physics & Society
Sign upImpact of humankind on the environment are discussed from the point of view of the physical sciences. Calculations based on physical principles will be made, and the resulting policy implications are considered.ENG 180Engineering Analysis
Sign upSolutions of systems of linear and nonlinear algebraic equations; approximation methods; solutions of ordinary differential equations; initial and boundary value problems; solutions of partial differential equations of Elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic types; Eigen value problems.ENG 188Science & Technology of Sustainable Power Generation
Sign upFocus on scientific understanding and development of power generation that is the basis of modern society. Concentration on power generation methods that are sustainable, in particular, discussion of the most recent innovations.ENG 250Technology Management
Sign upManagement of the engineering and technology activity. Functions of design, planning, production, marketing, sales, and maintenance. Technological product life cycle. Research and development activity. Project planning and organization. Manufacturing issues. Case studies.
ESP45 courses
ESP 001Environmental Analysis
Sign upAnalysis of the physical, biological, and social interactions which constitute environmental problems. Emphasis on analysis of environmental problems, the consequences of proposed solutions, and the interaction of environmental science and public policy in creating solutions.ESP 010Current Issues in the Environment
Sign upScience behind environmental issues, and policies affecting our ability to solve domestic and international environmental problems. Resources, environmental quality, regulation, environmental perception and conservation. Integrative case studies.ESP 100General Ecology
Sign upTheoretical & experimental analysis of the distribution, growth & regulation of species populations; predator-prey & competitive interactions; and the organization of natural communities. Application of evolutionary & ecological principles to selected environmental problems.ESP 101Ecology, Nature, & Society
Sign upInterdisciplinary study of diversity and change in human societies, using frameworks from anthropology, evolutionary ecology, history, archaeology, psychology, and other fields. Topics include population dynamics, subsistence transitions, family organization, disease, economics, warfare, politics, and resource conservation.ESP 106Environmental Data Science
Sign upProgramming with environmental data using R. Understanding data types, loops, branching and functions. Reproducible workflows and version control to import, organize, explore, analyze and visualize environmental data. Data science terminology and approaches. Common data sources used in environmental science and policy.ESP 110Principles of Environmental Science
Sign upApplication of physical and chemical principles, ecological concepts, and systems approach to policy analysis of atmospheric environments, freshwater and marine environments, land use, energy supplies and technology, and other resources.ESP 111Marine Environmental Issues
Sign upExamination of critical environmental issues occurring in coastal waters including the effects of climate change, overfishing, and other human impacts. Through readings and group discussions, students will develop an integrative understanding of the oceanographic and ecological processes.ESP 116NOceanography
Sign upAdvanced oceanographic topics: Chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes; research methods and data analysis; marine resources, anthropogenic impacts, and climate change; integrated earth/ocean/atmosphere systems; weekly lab and one weekend field trip.ESP 121Population Ecology
Sign upDevelopment of exponential and logistic growth models for plant and animal populations, analysis of age structure, analysis of competition and predator-prey systems, and analysis of disease dynamics. Developing mathematical models and using them to make predictions and solve problems.ESP 123Introduction to Field & Laboratory Methods in Ecology
Sign upIntroduction to methods used for collecting ecological data in field and laboratory situations. Methods used by population ecologists and community ecologists; emphasis on experimental design, scientific writing and data analysis.ESP 124Marine & Coastal Field Ecology
Sign upEcology of marine populations and communities living in diverse habitats along the California coast. Hands-on learning using scientific process and tools of the biological trade to address ecological questions arising during field trips. Critical thinking through discussing scientific literature.ESP 127Plant Conservation Biology
Sign upPrinciples governing the conservation of plant species and plant communities, including the roles of fire, exotic species, grazing, pollination, soils, and population genetics; analytic and practical techniques for plant conservation; and introduction to relevant legal, ethical, and policy issues.ESP 150APhysical & Chemical Oceanography
Sign upPhysical and chemical properties of seawater, fluid dynamics, air-sea interaction, currents, waves, tides, mixing, major oceanic geochemical cycles.ESP 150BGeological Oceanography
Sign upIntroduction to the origin and geologic evolution of ocean basins. Composition and structure of oceanic crust; marine volcanism; and deposition of marine sediments. Interpretation of geologic history of the ocean floor in terms of sea-floor spreading theory.ESP 150CBiological Oceanography
Sign upEcology of major marine habitats, including intertidal, shelf benthic, deep-sea and plankton communities. Existing knowledge and contemporary issues in research. Segment devoted to human use. One weekend field trip required.ESP 151Limnology
Sign upBiology and productivity of inland waters with emphasis on the physical and chemical environment.ESP 151LLimnology Laboratory
Sign upLimnological studies of lakes, streams, and reservoirs with interpretation of aquatic ecology.ESP 152Coastal Oceanography
Sign upOceanography of coastal waters, including bays, river plumes, nearshore and estuaries; focus on transport patterns, how they are forced and implications for ecological and environmental problems. Pertinent for students in oceanography, ecology, environmental engineering, geology and hydrology.ESP 155Wetland Ecology
Sign upIntroduction to wetland ecology. The structure and function of major wetland types and principles that are common to wetlands and that distinguish them from terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems.ESP 155LWetland Ecology Laboratory
Sign upModern and classic techniques in wetland field ecology. Emphasis on sampling procedures, vegetation analysis, laboratory analytical procedures, and examples of successful wetland restoration techniques.ESP 160The Policy Process
Sign upAlternative models of public policymaking and application to case studies in the U.S. and California.ESP 161Environmental Law
Sign upIntroduction for non-Law School students to some of the principal issues in environmental law and the judicial interpretation of some important environmental statutes, e.g., NEPA.ESP 162Environmental Policy
Sign upCompares economic with socio-cultural approaches to understanding the causes of environmental problems and strategies for addressing them. Includes different approaches to the policy process, policy instruments, and environmental behavior. Applies these principles to several problems.ESP 163Energy & Environmental Aspects of Transportation
Sign upEngineering, economic, and systems planning concepts. Analysis and evaluation of energy, air quality and selected environmental attributes of transportation technologies. Strategies for reducing pollution and petroleum consumption in light of institutional and political constraints. Evaluation of vehicle emission models.ESP 165Climate Policy
Sign upModels, data and assumptions behind competing arguments regarding societal response to the prospect of climate change at the state, national and international level from economic, ethical and policy science perspectives.ESP 166Ocean & Coastal Policy
Sign upOverview of U.S. and International ocean and coastal policy, including energy, coastal land-use and water quality, protected areas and species.ESP 167Energy Policy
Sign upSurvey of primary energy resources (fossil, renewable, nuclear), energy conversion methods, future energy demand scenarios, and environmental impacts of energy. Overview of energy policy in the U.S. Analysis of policy alternatives for addressing energy-related environmental and national security issues.ESP 168AMethods of Environmental Policy Analysis
Sign upEvaluation of alternatives for solution of complex environmental problems; impact analysis, benefit cost analysis, distributional analysis, decision making under uncertainty, and multi-objective evaluation.ESP 168BMethods of Environmental Policy Evaluation
Sign upContinuation of ESP 168A. Emphasis on examination of the literature for applications of research & evaluation techniques to problems of transportation, air & water pollution, land use, and energy policy.ESP 169Water Policy & Politics
Sign upGovernance of water, including issues of water pollution/quality and water supply. Politics of water decision-making and effectiveness of water policy. Broad focus on federal water policy, with case examples from nationally significant U.S. watersheds.ESP 170Conservation Biology Policy
Sign upAnalysis of policies designed to conserve species and their habitats. Emphasis on how individual incentives affect the success of conservation policies. Valuation of endangered species and biodiversity. Criteria for deciding conservation priorities.ESP 171Urban & Regional Planning
Sign upHow cities plan for growth in ways that minimize environmental harm. Standard city planning tools (general plan, zoning ordinance) and innovative new approaches. Focus on planning requirements and practices in California. Relationships between local, regional, state, and federal policy.ESP 172Public Lands Management
Sign upInvestigation of alternative approaches to public lands management by Federal and state agencies. Role each agency's legislation plays in determining the range of resource allocations.ESP 173Land Use & Growth Controls
Sign upExposes students to the economic, political, and legal factors affecting land use and growth controls, and helps students critically evaluate written materials in terms of their arguments and supporting data. May be taught abroad.ESP 174Environmental Justice Policy & Practice
Sign upHistory and frameworks of environmental justice; environmental justice policy; methods of spatial analysis. Emphasis on California and the United States.ESP 175Natural Resource Economics
Sign upEconomic concepts and policy issues associated with natural resources, renewable resources (ground water, forests, fisheries, and wildlife populations) and non-renewable resources (minerals and energy resources, soil).ESP 178Applied Research Methods
Sign upResearch methods for analysis of urban and regional land use, transportation, and environmental problems. Survey research and other data collection techniques; demographic analysis; basic forecasting, air quality, and transportation models. Collection, interpretation, and critical evaluation of data.ESP 179Environmental Impact Assessment
Sign upIntroduction to the information resources and methods typically used in environmental impact analysis. Emphasis on how environmental information is applied to planning, environmental regulation, and public policymaking, with case studies from California land use and natural resource policy.ESP 179LEnvironmental Impact Reporting Using Geographic Information
Sign upIntroduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS) by using ArcView for assessment and environmental planning.ESP 212AEnvironmental Policy Process
Sign upIntroduction to selected theories of the policy process and applications to the field of environmental policy. Develops critical reading skills, understanding of policy theory, and an ability to apply multiple theories to the same phenomena.ESP 212BEnvironmental Policy Evaluation
Sign upMethod and practice, philosophical basis, and political role of policy analysis. Reviews basic concepts from economic theory; how and why environmental problems emerge in a market economy; and tools necessary for solving environmental problems.ESP 220Tropical Ecology
Sign upOpen to graduate and undergraduate students who meet requirement subject to consent of instructor. An overview of present status of knowledge on structure and processes of major tropical ecosystems. Differences and similaritiees among tropical and temperate systems stressed.ESP 228Advanced Simulation Modeling
Sign upAdvanced techniques in simulation modeling; optimization and simulation, dynamic parameter estimation, linear models, error propagation, and sensitivity testing. Latter half of course introduces model evaluation in ecological and social system models.ESP 275Economic Analysis of Resource & Environmental Policies
Sign upDevelopment of externality theory, market failure concepts, welfare economics, theory of renewable and non-renewable resource use, and political economic models. Applications to policy issues regarding the agricultural/environment interface and managing resources in the public domain.ESP 278Research Methods in Environmental Policy
Sign upIntroduction to scientific research in environmental policy.Major issues in the philosophy of the social sciences.How to design research that acknowledges theoretical assumptions and that is likely to produce evidence in an intersubjectively reliable fashion with explicit recognition of its uncertainties.
EVE46 courses
EVE 002Biodiversity
Sign upIntroduction to nature, scope and geographical distribution of biodiversity (the diversity of life, with emphasis on plants and animals, especially insects). Humans and biodiversity; domestication, aesthetics, ethics and valuation. Species richness and "success." Biodiversity through time; monitoring, evaluation and conservation.EVE 010Evolution for Non-Biologists
Sign upIntroduction to evolutionary biology for the general population.EVE 011Principles of Ecology
Sign upEcological principles with emphasis on humans and their interactions with the environment; how humans affect and depend on natural ecosystems; the future of the Earth's biosphere.EVE 012Life in the Sea
Sign upDiversity of life in the sea; adaptations to physical/chemical ocean environment; marine science research methods; utilization of living marine resources by humans; factors and processes that influence diversity of sea life, including humans.EVE 013Sex in the Natural World
Sign upExplores the diversity, mechanisms and evolution of sexual behaviors across the kingdoms of life.EVE 016Wild Davis: A California Naturalist Certification Course
Sign upNatural history and urban ecology of Davis. Basics of ecological observation, community science and service, and California's unique natural communities. If fee is paid, completion of the course provides certification in the UC California Naturalist Program.EVE 017Dining with Darwin: Evolutionary Insights Into Your Diet
Sign upCrave salty, fatty, sugary foods? Want to know why? Evolution of cravings, metabolism and dentition, and of cooking our food. Relate Paleo, South Beach, and vegan diets to ancestral and global diets and current metabolism. For majors and nonmajors.EVE 020Darwinian Medicine
Sign upIntroduction for non-biologists to the evolved traits of humans and pathogens that influence human biological variation, health, and disease.EVE 100Introduction to Evolution
Sign upGeneral survey of the origins of biological diversity and evolutionary mechanisms.EVE 101Introduction to Ecology
Sign upGeneral survey of the principles of ecology.EVE 101QIntroduction to Computer Models in Ecology
Sign upComputational methods and mathematical models used to study ecological phenomena.EVE 102Population & Quantitative Genetics
Sign upEvolution as caused by random mating, genetic drift, natural selection, inbreeding, migration,and mutation in theory and actuality. The resemblance between relatives and consequences of selection for quantitative traits. Application of these ideas to topics such as the evolution of sex.EVE 103Phylogeny, Speciation & Macroevolution
Sign upStatistical inference of evolutionary patterns and processes above the species level. Topics include estimation of phylogenies and divergence times, character evolution, biogeographic history, and rates and patterns of lineage diversification, with an emphasis on the origin of species.EVE 104Community Ecology
Sign upPopulation growth and density dependence; predation; exploitative, interference and apparent competition; coexistence mechanisms; niches, spatial and temporal variation; stability, diversity, and productivity of food webs; applications to conservation and biological control.EVE 105Phylogenetic Analysis of Vertebrate Structure
Sign upThe structure of the classes and subclasses of vertebrates is described and interpreted in terms of phylogeny.EVE 106Mechanical Design in Organisms
Sign upExplores fundamental principles in the form and function of organisms, examining how basic properties of size, shape, structure, and habitat constrain ways in which plants and animals interact and cope with their physical surroundings.EVE 107Animal Communication
Sign upHow animals use songs, dances, colors, chemicals, electricity and vibrations to communicate. Mechanisms of signal production and detection (sensory systems), theory of information transfer and signal design, and the role of natural selection in shaping communication.EVE 108Systematics & Evolution of Angiosperms
Sign upDiversity and classification of angiosperms (flowering plants) on a world scale, and current understanding of the origin of angiosperms and evolutionary relationships and trends within them based on morphological and molecular evidence.EVE 109Molecular Ecology
Sign upUse of molecular tools to answer fundamental questions in ecology and evolution of natural populations. Use of DNA and protein sequences to measure diversity and natural selection within and between populations and species and application to the fields of ecology and conservation. Hands-on manipulation and analysis of data in R.EVE 110Running, Swimming & Flying
Sign upExamines the bases of organism movement in terrestrial, aquatic, and aerial environments, emphasizing both the unifying principles underlying locomotion, as well as a range of strategies employed across diverse groups of organisms.EVE 111Marine Environmental Issues
Sign upExamination of critical environmental issues occurring in coastal waters including the effects of climate change, overfishing, and other human impacts. Through readings and group discussions, students will develop an integrative understanding of the oceanographic and ecological processes.EVE 112Biology of Invertebrates
Sign upSurvey of the invertebrate phyla, emphasizing aquatic forms, and focusing on morphology, development, natural history, ecology, and phylogenetic relationships.EVE 112LBiology of Invertebrates Laboratory
Sign upField and laboratory experience with representative members of the major invertebrate phyla discussed in EVE 112. Emphasis on comparative morphology, natural history, ecology, and behavior of living invertebrates. Two field trips required.EVE 114Experimental Invertebrate Biology
Sign upBiology, ecology, and evolution of local marine invertebrates with a focus on adaptations to environmental and biological factors encountered on the California coast. Hands-on field and laboratory learning with an emphasis on generating and testing hypotheses.EVE 115Marine Ecology
Sign upProcesses affecting the distribution, abundance, and diversity of plant and animal life in the sea. Introduction to marine habitat diversity and human impacts on marine ecosystems.EVE 117Plant Ecology
Sign upThe study of the interactions between plants, plant populations or vegetation types and their physical and biological environment. Special emphasis on California. Four full-day field trips and brief write-up of class project required.EVE 119Population Biology of Invasive Plants & Weeds
Sign upOrigin and evolution of invasive plant species and weeds, reproduction and dispersal, seed ecology, modeling of population dynamics, interactions between invasive species, native species, and crops, biological control. Laboratories emphasize design of competition experiments and identification of weedy species.EVE 120Global Change Ecology
Sign upTreatment of historical evolution of the biosphere resulting from physical, chemical, and biological influences. Special focus upon changes caused by humans. Topics pertain to biodiversity, resources, conservation, and ecosystem services.EVE 131Human Genetic Variation & Evolution
Sign upIntroduction to genome-wide nucleotide sequence variation in human populations and computational methods for its analysis. Topics to include forensics, disease gene mapping, and studies of human evolutionary history. Misuses, such as eugenics, and ethical/legal issues will be discussed.EVE 138Ecology of Tropical Latitudes
Sign upBiological, physical, and human-related aspects of the ecology of low latitudes. Distribution, numbers, and relationships of tropical organisms. Problems of development and conservation in the context of ecological and evolutionary theory.EVE 140Paleobotany
Sign upIntroduction to plant fossil record, beginning with invasion of land in the Silurian, emphasizing origin and evolution of major groups and adaptations and changing composition and distribution of floras in relation to plate tectonics and climatic change.EVE 141Principles of Systematics
Sign upHistorical background, philosophical rationale, contemporary approaches, and working rules of biosystematics, including International Code of Zoological Nomenclature.EVE 147Biogeography
Sign upMovements of terrestrial organisms. The role of geologic, climatic, and biologic changes in the geographic distribution of organisms.EVE 149Evolution of Ecological Systems
Sign upEvolution as an organizing force in natural communities. Coadaptation in trophic and competitive relationships. Ecology of polymorphisms, clines, and speciation.EVE 150Evolution of Animal Development
Sign upComparative analysis of animal development and the genetic basis of morphological diversification.EVE 161Microbial Phylogenomics; Genomic Perspectives on the Diversity & Diversification of Microbes
Sign upUse of DNA and genomic sequencing in studies of the diversity of microorganisms. Diversity of microbes, phylogenetics, genome sequencing, comparative genomics, phylogenomics, lateral gene transfer, molecular ecology, metagenomics, and studies of the human microbiome.EVE 175Computational Genetics
Sign upThe use of computers to solve problems in genetics and evolution. Introduction to a general purpose computer language (Python), computational statistical methods, and applications such as QTL mapping, linkage detection, estimation of rates of evolution, and gene finding.EVE 180AExperimental Ecology & Evolution in the Field
Sign upExperimental design in field ecology. Examination of primary literature, experimental design, independent and collaborative research, analysis of data, development of original research paper based on field experiments.EVE 180BExperimental Ecology & Evolution in the Field
Sign upExperimental design in field ecology. Examination of primary literature, experimental design, independent and collaborative research, analysis of data, development of original research paper based on field experiments.EVE 181Ecology & Evolution of Animal-Plant Interactions
Sign upAnimal adaptations for eating plants, pollinating flowers, dispersing seeds. Plant adaptations to herbivore defense, attraction of mutualists; role of coevolutionary arms race, mutualists and cheaters in plant/animal speciation. Exploration through lectures, original scientific literature, discussions and term paper.EVE 210Molecular Phylogenetic Analysis
Sign upTheory and practice of inferring phylogenetic trees using molecular sequence data. Practical techniques for obtaining sequence data, advantages and disadvantages of common approaches for inferring trees, statistical methods for comparing alternative hypotheses.EVE 211Applied Phylogenetics
Sign upApplications of phylogenetic methods to fields outside of systematics. Core lectures/labs in remedial phylogenetics, phylogeography, conservation and comparative morphology. Special topics vary yearly.EVE 220Species & Speciation
Sign upCurrent status of species concepts, models of speciation, current research on speciation, and relevance of species to conservation biology.EVE 225Linear Mixed Modeling in Ecology & Evolution
Sign upAnalysis of clustered data requires hierarchical or mixed statistical models. Conceptual basis and practical application of linear (mixed) models. Examples drawn from evolutionary and behavioral ecology. Hands-on manipulation and analysis of data in R.EVE 231Principles of Biological Data Analysis
Sign upIntroduction to the principles of data analysis, experimental design, statistical modeling, inference, and hypothesis tests. Statistical methods of particular importance in biological applications will be emphasized. Examples will be presented from the fields of ecology and evolutionary genetics.EVE 240Paleobotany & Angiosperm Evolution
Sign upCritical analysis of the plant fossil record as a source of evidence on origin, evolution, and phylogeny of the angio-sperms, Cretaceous and Tertiary climates, geographic history of modern taxa, and origin of modern vegetation types.
GEL114 courses
GEL 001The Earth
Sign upIntroduction to the study of the Earth. Earth's physical and chemical structure; internal and surface processes that mold the Earth; geological hazards and resources.GEL 002Earth System Science
Sign upSolid and fluid earth and its place in the solar system. How the solid earth interacts with the atmosphere, hydrosphere, biosphere, and extraterrestrial environment.GEL 002GEarth System Science Discussion
Sign upSmall group discussion and preparation of short papers for GEL 002.GEL 003History of Life
Sign upThe history of life during the three and onehalf billion years from its origin to the present day. Origin of life and processes of evolution; how to visualize and understand living organisms from their fossil remains.GEL 003GHistory of Life: Discussion
Sign upSmall group discussion and preparation of short papers for GEL 003. GE credit with concurrent enrollment in GEL 003: WE.GEL 003LHistory of Life Laboratory
Sign upExercises in understanding fossils as the clues to interpreting ancient life, including their functional morphology, paleoecology, and evolution.GEL 004Evolution: Science & World View
Sign upIntroduction to biological evolution. Emphasis on historical development, major lines of evidence and causes of evolution; relationships between evolution and Earth history; the impact of evolutionary thought on other disciplines.GEL 009Geology Field Experience
Sign upExposure to geologic features and earth processes in the field. Experiential instruction in earth-science concepts, spatial visualization, landscape evolution, deep time, critical thinking skills, and integrative scientific themes. One 4-5 day field trip.GEL 010Modern & Ancient Global Environmental Change
Sign upFundamental scientific concepts underlying issues such as global warming, pollution, and the future of nonsustainable resources presented in the context of anthropogenic processes as well as natural forcing of paleoenvironmental change throughout Earth's history.GEL 012Evolution & Paleobiology of Dinosaurs
Sign upIntroduction to evolutionary biology, paleobiology, ecology and paleoecology, using dinosaurs as case studies.GEL 016The Oceans
Sign upIntroductory survey of the marine environment. Oceanic physical phenomena, chemical constituents and chemistry of water, geological history, the seas biota and human utilization of marine resources.GEL 016GThe Oceans: Discussion
Sign upScientific method applied to discovery of the processes, biota and history of the oceans. Group discussion and preparation of term paper.GEL 016VThe Oceans
Sign upIntroductory survey of the marine environment. Oceanic physical phenomena, chemical constituents and chemistry of water, geological history, the seas biota and human utilization of marine resources.GEL 017Earthquakes & Other Earth Hazards
Sign upImpact of earthquakes, tsunami, volcanoes, landslides, and floods on humans, structures, and the environment. Discussion of the causes and effects of disasters and catastrophes, and on prediction, preparation, and mitigation of natural hazards.GEL 018Energy & the Environment
Sign upConventional and alternative energy resources and their environmental impacts. Basic principles, historical development, current advantages and disadvantages, future prospects. Oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, geothermal, water, tidal, solar, hydrogen, and other sources of energy for the 21st century.GEL 018VEnergy & the Environment
Sign upConventional and alternative energy resources and their environmental impacts. Basic principles, historical development, current advantages and disadvantages, future prospects. Oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear, wind, geothermal, water, tidal, solar, hydrogen, and other sources of energy for the 21st century.GEL 020Geology of California
Sign upThe geologic history of California, the origin of rocks and the environments in which they were formed, the structure of the rocks and the interpretation of their structural history, mineral resources, and appreciation of the California landscape. Offered in alternate years.GEL 025Geology of National Parks
Sign upAppreciation of the geologic framework underlying the inherent beauty of U.S. National Parks. Relationship of individual parks to geologic processes such as mountain building, volcanism, stream erosion, glacial action and landscape evolution.GEL 025VGeology of National Parks
Sign upAppreciation of the geologic framework underlying the inherent beauty of U.S. National Parks. Relationship of individual parks to geologic processes such as mountain building, volcanism, stream erosion, glacial action and landscape evolution.GEL 028Astrobiology
Sign upOrigin, evolution and distribution of life in our solar system and the Universe. Detecting habitable worlds, Drake equations, necessities and raw materials for life, philosophical implications of the search for life elsewhere.GEL 030Fractals, Chaos & Complexity
Sign upModern ideas about the unifying ideas of fractal geometry, chaos and complexity. Basic theory and applications with examples from physics, earth sciences, mathematics, population dynamics, ecology, history, economics, biology, computer science, art and architecture. Offered in alternate years.GEL 032Volcanoes
Sign upRole of eruptions, and eruptive products of volcanoes in shaping the planet's surface, influencing its environment, and providing essential human resources.GEL 035Rivers
Sign upIntroduction to geomorphology, climate and geology of rivers and watersheds, with case examples from California. Assessment of impacts of logging, agriculture, mining, urbanization and water supply on river processes. Optional river field trips.GEL 036The Solar System
Sign upNature of the sun, moon, and planets as determined by recent manned and unmanned exploration of the solar system. Comparison of terrestrial, lunar, and planetary geological processes. Search for life on other planets. Origin and evolution of the solar system. (Former course GEL 113 & GEL 113G.).GEL 050Physical Geology
Sign upThe Earth, its materials, its internal and external processes, its development through time by sea-floor spreading and global plate tectonics.GEL 050LPhysical Geology Laboratory
Sign upIntroduction to classification and recognition of minerals and rocks and to interpretation of topographic and geologic maps and aerial photographs.GEL 053Introduction to Geobiology
Sign upIntroduction to interactions between Earth and life with an emphasis on how metabolism, cellular processes, evolution and ecology emerged within natural environments and have changed Earth's surface.GEL 055Introduction to Geochemistry
Sign upIntroduction to key geochemical principles in Earth & Planetary Sciences; chemical bonding, geochemical affinity of elements, redox & acid base equilibria in geological systems, radioactive decay, isotopic fractionation and paleoclimate records.GEL 056Introduction to Geophysics
Sign upIntroduction to geophysical topics essential to all aspects of Earth and planetary sciences: theory of plate tectonics, gravitational field of planets, diffusion, rheology, seismology, and earthquakes.GEL 060Earth Materials: Introduction
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Physical and chemical properties of Earth materials; structure, chemical composition, and identification of rock-forming minerals; mineral-rock associations, and their origin from silicate liquids, aqueous fluids, and solid state transformations.GEL 062Optical Mineralogy
Sign upOptical properties of inorganic crystals; techniques of mineral identification using the polarizing microscope; strategies for studying rocks in thin section.GEL 081Learning in Science & Mathematics
Sign upExploration of how students learn and develop understanding in science and mathematics classrooms. Introduction to case studies and interview techniques and their use in K-6 classrooms to illuminate factors that affect student learning.GEL 101Structural Geology
Sign upStudy of processes and products of rock deformation. Introduction to structural geology through a survey of the features and geometries of faults and folds, techniques of strain analysis, and continuum mechanics of rock deformation.GEL 101LStructural Geology Lab
Sign upLaboratory study of the processes and products of rock deformation. Introduction to the practice of structural geology through observations and analysis of rock deformation, including field measurement techniques and geologic mapping.GEL 103Field Geology
Sign upField mapping projects and writing geological reports. Weekly classroom meetings devoted to preparation of maps, cross sections, stratigraphic sections, rock descriptions, and reports. Seven-eight days for field trips will occur on weekends during the quarter.GEL 105Earth Materials: Igneous Rocks
Sign upOrigin and occurrence of igneous rocks. Laboratory exercises emphasize the study of these rocks in hand specimen and thin section.GEL 106Earth Materials: Metamorphic Rocks
Sign upPhysical and chemical properties of metamorphic rocks; interpretation of metamorphic environments. Laboratory exercises emphasize the study of these rocks in hand specimen and thin section.GEL 107Earth History: Paleobiology
Sign upEvolution and ecological structure of the biosphere from the origin of life to the present.GEL 107LEarth History: Paleobiology Laboratory
Sign upExercises in determining the ecological functions and evolution of individuals, populations, and communities of fossil organisms in field and laboratory.GEL 108Earth History: Paleoclimates
Sign upGeological and environmental factors controlling climate change, the greenhouse effect with a detailed analysis of the history of Earth's climate fluctuations over the last 600 million years. Past and present climate records are used to examine potential future climatic scenarios.GEL 109Earth History: Sediments & Strata
Sign upSediment formation, transport, and deposition. Interpretations of sedimentary processes across landscapes and through time in the context of environmental and geological problems. Reconstruction of ancient environmental change from sedimentary rocks.GEL 109LEarth History: Sediments & Strata Laboratory
Sign upMethods of stratigraphic and sedimentologic analysis of modern and ancient sediments. Identification of major sediment and sedimentary rock types. Outcrop and subsurface analysis of sedimentary basins. GE credit with concurrent enrollment in GEL 109. Includes four one-day field trips.GEL 110ASummer Field Geology: Structures & Neotectonics
Sign upAdvanced application of geologic field methods to the study of deformed rocks and their interpretation in terms of tectonic processes. Includes development and interpretation of geologic maps, cross sections and stratigraphic sections. Six days/week for three weeks in an off-campus location.GEL 110BSummer Field Geology: Volcanology
Sign upAdvanced application of geologic field methods to the study of volcanic and plutonic rocks and their interpretation in terms of igneous processes. Includes development and interpretation of geologic maps, cross sections, stratigraphic sections, and outcrop scale observations. Six days/week for three weeks in an off-campus location.GEL 110CSummer Field Geology: Special Projects
Sign upAdvanced application of geologic field methods to a special project location and the interpretation of field observations in terms of its geologic processes and geologic history. Variable field location and specific activities. Six days/week for three weeks in an off-campus location.GEL 115Earth Science, History, & People
Sign upStudy of interplay between the Earth and its human inhabitants through history, including consideration of acute events such as earthquakes and eruptions as well as the geology of resources, topography, and water.GEL 116NOceanography
Sign upAdvanced oceanographic topics: Chemical, physical, geological, and biological processes; research methods and data analysis; marine resources, anthropogenic impacts, and climate change; integrated earth/ocean/atmosphere systems; weekly lab and one weekend field trip.GEL 120Origins: From the Big Bang to Today
Sign upLong-term and large-scale perspectives on the origins of the universe, stars and planets, life, human evolution, the rise of civilization and the modern world. Multi-disciplinary approach to "Big History" involving cosmology, astronomy, geology, climatology, biology, anthropology, archeology and traditional history.GEL 130Non-Renewable Natural Resources
Sign upOrigin, occurrence, and distribution of non-renewable resources, including metallic, nonmetallic, and energy-producing materials. Problems of discovery, production, and management. Estimations and limitations of reserves, and their sociological, political, and economic effects.GEL 131Risk: Natural Hazards & Related Phenomena
Sign upRisk, prediction, prevention and response for earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, floods, storms, fires, impacts, global warming.GEL 132Introductory Inorganic Geochemistry
Sign upGEL 133Environmental Geochemistry
Sign upIntroduction to Earth surface processes with a focus on topics of current environmental interest such as nuclear power and waste disposal, acid mine drainage, carbon sequestration, history of polar ice sheets and sea level change.GEL 134Environmental Geology & Land Use Planning
Sign upGeologic aspects of land use and development planning. Geologic problems concerning volcanic and earthquake hazards, land stability, floods, erosion, coastal hazards, non-renewable resource extraction, waste disposal, water resources.GEL 136Ecogeomorphology of Rivers & Streams
Sign upIntegrative multidisciplinary field analysis of streams. Class project examines hydrology, geomorphology, water quality and aquatic and riparian ecology of degraded and pristine stream systems. Includes cooperative two-week field survey in remote wilderness settings with students from diverse scientific backgrounds.GEL 138Introductory Volcanology
Sign upPrinciples of physical and chemical volcanology. Taught in a volcanically active setting (e.g., Hawaii) with a strong field component.GEL 139Rivers: Form, Function & Management
Sign upAnalysis of river form and processes, emphasis on fluvial geomorphology, and river and stream restoration; case studies to illustrate concepts and applications. Two weekend field trips required. Offered irregularly.GEL 140Introduction to Process Geomorphology
Sign upQuantitative description and interpretation of landscapes with emphasis on the relationships between physical processes, mass conservation, and landform evolution.GEL 141Evolutionary History of Vertebrates
Sign upEvolutionary history of vertebrates; fossil record and phylogeny; timing of major evolutionary events; appearance of major vertebrate groups; physical constraints in vertebrate evolution; paleobiogeography of vertebrates; effect of continental movement on vertebrate evolution; dinosaurs and other strange vertebrates.GEL 141LEvolutionary History of Vertebrates Laboratory
Sign upAugments lecture GEL 141 through handling of specimens enabling in-person examination of three dimensional features observed in vertebrate skeletons, both fossil and living. Offered in alternate years.GEL 142Basin Analysis
Sign upAnalysis of sedimentary basins from initiation to maturity, including controls on sedimentary fill, subsidence analysis, sequence stratigraphy, core logs, and applications to petroleum exploration and hydrology. One two-day field trip. Offered irregularly.GEL 143Advanced Igneous Petrology
Sign upPhysical and chemical properties of magmatic environments and processes of igneous rock formation. Laboratory study of representative igneous rocks. Offered irregularly.GEL 144Historical Ecology
Sign upAncient ecosystems and the factors that caused them to change. Species, expansion, evolution of new modes of life, geologically induced variations in resource supply, and extinction provide historical perspective on the biosphere of future.GEL 145Advanced Metamorphic Petrology
Sign upMetamorphic processes and the origin of metamorphic rocks. Laboratory study of representative rock suites. Offered irregularly.GEL 146Radiogenic Isotope Geochemistry & Cosmochemistry
Sign upBasic principles of nuclear chemistry and physics applied to geology to determine the ages of terrestrial rocks, meteorites, archeological objects, age of the Earth, to trace geological/environmental processes, and explain formation of the chemical elements in the Universe. Offered irregularly.GEL 147Geology of Ore Deposits
Sign upTectonic, lithologic and geochemical setting of major metallic ore deposit types emphasizing ore deposit genesis, water/rock interaction and the environmental effects of mining. Offered irregularly.GEL 148Stable Isotopes & Geochemical Tracers
Sign upUse of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes in defining hydrologic processes; carbon, nitrogen, and sulfur isotopes as indicators of exchange between the lithosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. Radiogenic, cosmogenic, and noble gas isotope tracers. Offered irregularly.GEL 149Geothermal Systems
Sign upGeology, geochemistry, and geophysics of geothermal systems, including electrical power generation and direct use applications. Includes one day field trip on a weekend during the quarter. Offered irregularly.GEL 150APhysical & Chemical Oceanography
Sign upPhysical and chemical properties of seawater, fluid dynamics, air-sea interaction, currents, waves, tides, mixing, major oceanic geochemical cycles.GEL 150BGeological Oceanography
Sign upIntroduction to the origin and geologic evolution of ocean basins. Composition and structure of oceanic crust; marine volcanism; and deposition of marine sediments. Interpretation of geologic history of the ocean floor in terms of sea-floor spreading theory.GEL 150CBiological Oceanography
Sign upEcology of major marine habitats, including intertidal, shelf benthic, deep-sea and plankton communities. Existing knowledge and contemporary issues in research. Segment devoted to human use. One weekend field trip required.GEL 152Paleobiology of Protista
Sign upMorphology, systematics, evolution, and ecology of single-celled organisms that are preserved in the fossil record. Offered irregularly.GEL 156Hydrogeology & Contaminant Transport
Sign upPhysical and chemical processes affecting groundwater flow and contaminant transport, with emphasis on realistic hydrogeologic systems. Groundwater geology and chemistry. Fundamentals of groundwater flow and transport analysis. Laboratory includes field pumping test and work with physical and computer models.GEL 160Geological Data Analysis
Sign upIntroduction to quantitative methods in analyzing geological data including basic principles of statistics and probability, error analysis, hypothesis testing, inverse theory, time series analysis and directional data analyses.GEL 161Geophysical Field Methods
Sign upGeophysical methods applied to determining subsurface structure in tectonics, hydrogeology, geotechnical engineering, hydrocarbon and mineral exploration. Theory, survey design & interpretation of gravity, electrical resistivity, electromagnetic, reflection & refraction seismology, and ground-penetrating radar measurements.GEL 162Geophysics of the Solid Earth
Sign upTheory and use of physics in the study of the solid earth. Gravity, magnetism, paleomagnetism, and heat flow. Application to the interpretation of the regional and large-scale structure of the earth and to plate tectonics. Offered irregularly.GEL 163Planetary Geology & Geophysics
Sign upPrinciples of planetary science. Planetary dynamics, including orbital mechanics, tidal interactions and ring dynamics. Theory of planetary interiors, gravitational fields, rotational dynamics. Physics of planetary atmospheres. Geological processes, landforms and their modification.GEL 175 Advanced Field Geology
Sign upAdvanced field studies of selected geologic terrains, interpretation and discussion of field observations. Offered irregularly.GEL 181Teaching in Science & Mathematics
Sign upExploration of effective teaching practices based on examination of how middle school students learn math and science. Selected readings, discussion and field experience in middle school classrooms.GEL 182Field Studies in Marine Geochemistry
Sign upMarine geochemistry with the opportunity of going to sea or into the field on land. Techniques of sea-floor mapping using bottom photography, marine geochemical sampling, and method of data reduction and sample analysis. Analysis of data/samples collected. Offered irregularly.GEL 183Teaching High School Mathematics & Science
Sign upExploration and creation of effective teaching practices based on examination of how high school students learn mathematics and science. Field experience in high school classrooms.GEL 185AConceptual Integrated Science for Non-Science Majors: The Physical World
Sign upConceptual, inquiry-based integrated science course. Topics in the Next Generation Science Standards. Elementary school level teaching practice. Physics, chemistry, and science inquiry.GEL 185BConceptual Integrated Science for Non-Science Majors: Earth System Science
Sign upConceptual, inquiry-based integrated science course. Topics in the Next Generation Science Standards. Elementary school level teaching practice. Earth, space and environmental science, and science inquiry.GEL 186Facilitating Learning in STEM Classrooms
Sign upSTEM Learning Assistant Seminar. Theoretical and practical issues of effective teaching in discussion/labs: student-centered, active, cooperative learning environments, responsive teaching, and differentiated classroom instruction.GEL 205Advanced Field Stratigraphy
Sign upFieldwork over spring break. Application of stratigraphic techniques to research problems. Collection, compilation, and interpretation of field data. Integration of data with models for deposition and interpretations of Earth history. Topics will vary. Offered irregularly.GEL 206Stratigraphic Analysis
Sign upTopics in advanced methods of stratigraphic analysis, regional stratigraphy and sedimentation, and sedimentary basin analysis. Emphasis on techniques used to interpret stratigraphic record and on current issues in stratigraphy and sedimentation. Offered irregularly.GEL 214Active Tectonics
Sign upActive deformation associated with faults, landslides, and volcanoes. Geodetic measurement techniques such as triangulation, trilateration, leveling, Global Positioning System (GPS), and radar interferometry. GPS data acquisition and analysis. Inversion of geodetic data and mechanical models of crustal deformation. Offered irregularly.GEL 216Tectonics
Sign upNature and evolution of tectonic features of the Earth. Causes, consequences, and evolution of plate motion, with selected examples from the Earth's deformed belts. Offered irregularly.GEL 217Topics in Geophysics
Sign upDiscussion and evaluation of current research in a given area of geophysics. Topic will change from year to year. Offered in alternate years.GEL 218Analysis of Structures in Deformed Rocks
Sign upRecent advances in the understanding and analysis of structures in brittlely and ductilely deformed rocks. Detailed investigation of the characteristics of the structures, models for their formation, and applications to inferring the kinematics of larger scale tectonics. Offered irregularly.GEL 219Fracture & Flow of Rocks
Sign upOrigins of those structures in rocks associated with brittle and ductile deformation. Theoretical analysis, using continuum mechanics, and experimental evidence for the origin of the structures with emphasis on deformational processes in the earth. Offered irregularly.GEL 220Mechanics of Geologic Structures
Sign upDevelopment in tensor notation of the balance laws of continuum mechanics, and constitutive theories of elasticity, viscosity, and plasticity and their application to understanding development of geologic structures such as fractures, faults, dikes, folds, foliations, and boudinage. Offered irregularly.GEL 226Advanced Sedimentary Petrology
Sign upAdvanced petrography and geochemistry of sediments and sedimentary rocks. Geochemical, textural and mineralogical evolution of sedimentary rocks reflecting depositional or burial processes. Laboratory work emphasizes thin section study of rocks. Offered irregularly.GEL 227Stable Isotopes Biogeochemistry
Sign upDiscussion and application of stable isotope techniques for scientific research problems. Emphasizes carbon, oxygen, nitrogen, hydrogen and sulfur isotopes. Laboratory develops basic skills of cryogenic gas extraction and specific techniques for individual research using stable isotopes. Offered irregularly.GEL 228Topics in Paleoceanography
Sign upCritical discussion and review of selected topics in paleoceanography and paleoclimatology relating to the history of the processes controlling and affecting climate change and ocean circulation throughout the geologic record. Topics vary. Offered irregularly.GEL 230Geomorphology & River Management
Sign upImpacts of management and land use activities on the geomorphology of rivers and streams. Evaluation and use of analytical tools for river assessment. Assessment of river and stream restoration strategies and emerging issues in river management.GEL 232Oceans & Climate Change
Sign upModern climate change and linkages between the ocean-atmosphere-cryosphere-terrestrial climate system. Importance of the ocean in forcing climate change, and the impacts of anthropogenic processes on the ocean. Topics vary. Offered irregularly.GEL 235Surface Processes
Sign upRecent advances in the analysis of landforms and their evolution. Detailed investigation of the tools used to document surface processes. Evaluation of concepts and processes that govern landscape evolution. Offered irregularly.GEL 236Inverse Theory in Geology & Geophysics
Sign upInversion of data for model parameters. Evaluation of parameter uncertainties. Linear and nonlinear problems for discrete and continuous models. Bakus-Gilbert inversion. Offered irregularly.GEL 238Theoretical Seismology
Sign upElastodynamic wave equation. Greens functions and source representations. Ray theory. Plane and spherical waves and boundary conditions. Elastic wave propagation in stratified media.GEL 240Geophysics of the Earth
Sign upPhysics of the earth's crust, mantle, and core. Laplace's equation and spherical harmonic expression of gravity and magnetic fields. Elastic wave equation in geologic media. Body and surface seismic waves. Equations of state, thermal structure of the earth. Offered irregularly.GEL 241Geomagnetism
Sign upNature and origin of the Earth's magnetic field. Present field and recent secular variation. Spherical harmonic analysis. Paleosecular variation. Polarity transitions and geomagnetic excursions. Statistics of polarity intervals. Dynamo theory. Planetary magnetism. Offered irregularly.GEL 242Paleomagnetism
Sign upPrinciples and applications of paleomagnetism. Physical basis of rock and mineral magnetism. Field and laboratory techniques. Instrumentation. Analysis of paleomagnetic data. Statistical methods. Rock magnetic properties. Geological and geophysical applications. Offered irregularly.GEL 246Physical Chemistry of Metamorphic Processes
Sign upPhysiochemical principles of metamorphic mineral assemblages and methods of interpreting the paragenesis of metamorphic rocks. Offered irregularly.GEL 247Metamorphic Petrology Seminar
Sign upSelected topics in metamorphic petrology (e.g., mass transport processes, tectonic settings, geothermometry, thermal structure of metamorphic belts, regional studies). Offered irregularly.GEL 250Advanced Geochemistry Seminar
Sign upCritical review of selected topics in geochemistry including: ore genesis, hydrothermal and geothermal fluids, recent and ancient sediments, isotope geology, origin and chemistry of the oceans. Subject varies yearly depending on student interest.GEL 251Advanced Topics in Isotope Geochemistry & Cosmochemistry
Sign upAstrophysical context on origin of Solar System, synthesis of chemical elements, condensation sequence, star and planet formation, cosmochronology, building blocks of planets, development on planets' layered structure, atmosphere and hydrosphere and the role of comets/asteroids for volatile delivery. Offered irregularly.GEL 253Current Topics in Igneous Petrology
Sign upTopical seminar designed to help graduate students develop and maintain familiarity with current and past literature related to igneous rock petrogenesis.GEL 254Physical Chemistry of Igneous Processes
Sign upIntroduction of modern concepts in chemical thermodynamics and kinetics, and fluid dynamics of magmatic systems for graduate students in petrology. Offered irregularly.GEL 255Experimental Petrology
Sign upIntroduction to techniques and methods of design and executing experiments on Earth-forming minerals and rocks. Problems and examples from igneous and metamorphic petrology will be utilized. Offered irregularly.GEL 260Paleontology
Sign upSelected problems in paleontology. Subject to be studied will be decided at an organizational meeting. Offered irregularly.GEL 261Paleobiology Graduate Seminar 1: Evolutionary Aspects
Sign upTreat one or more of several topics in paleobiology from a phylogenetic perspective, including major patterns in evolution, building the tree of life, extinction & phylogeny, phylogeny of major phyla, and the relation between taxonomy & phylogeny.GEL 262Paleobiology Graduate Seminar: Methodological Aspects
Sign upOne or more major methods used in the study of fossils: Morphometrics and three-dimensional reconstruction of fossils, phylogenetic methodology, the application of geochemical techniques, and electron microscopy.GEL 281NInstrumental Techniques for Earth Scientists
Sign upLaboratory research techniques for new graduate students in Geology. Demonstration of and exposure to appropriate techniques in research.GEL 285Field Studies in Marine Geochemistry
Sign upMarine geochemistry with the opportunity of going to sea or into the field on land. Techniques of seafloor mapping using bottom photography, marine geochemical sampling, and method of data reduction and sample analysis. Analysis of data/samples collected.
MAT120 courses
MAT 000BElementary Algebra
Sign upBasic concepts of algebra, including polynomials, factoring, equations, graphs, and inequalities. Offered only if sufficient number of students enroll.MAT 000CTrigonometry
Sign upBasic concepts of trigonometry, including trigonometric functions, identities, inverse functions, and applications. Offered only if sufficient number of students enroll.MAT 000DIntermediate Algebra
Sign upBasic concepts of algebra, prepares student for college work in mathematics, such as MAT 016A or MAT 021A. Functions, equations, graphs, logarithms, and systems of equations. Offered only if sufficient number of students enroll.MAT 012Precalculus
Sign upTopics selected for their use in calculus, including functions and their graphs, slope, zeroes of polynomials, exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions, sketching surfaces and solids.MAT 016AShort Calculus
Sign upLimits; differentiation of algebraic functions; analytic geometry; applications, in particular to maxima and minima problems.MAT 016BShort Calculus
Sign upIntegration; calculus for trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions; applications.MAT 016CShort Calculus
Sign upDifferential equations; partial derivatives; double integrals; applications; series.MAT 017ACalculus for Biology & Medicine
Sign upIntroduction to differential calculus via applications in biology and medicine. Limits, derivatives of polynomials, trigonometric, and exponential functions, graphing, applications of the derivative to biology and medicine.MAT 017BCalculus for Biology & Medicine
Sign upIntroduction to integral calculus and elementary differential equations via applications to biology and medicine. Fundamental theorem of calculus, techniques of integration including integral tables and numerical methods, improper integrals, elementary first order differential equations, applications in biology and medicine.MAT 017CCalculus for Biology & Medicine
Sign upMatrix algebra, functions of several variables, partial derivatives, systems of differential equations, and applications to biology and medicine.MAT 021ACalculus
Sign upFunctions, limits, continuity. Slope and derivative. Differentiation of algebraic and transcendental functions. Applications to motion, natural growth, graphing, extrema of a function. Differentials. L'Hopital's rule.MAT 021AHHonors Calculus
Sign upMore intensive treatment of material covered in MAT 021A.MAT 021ALEmerging Scholars Program Calculus Workshop
Sign upFunctions, limits, continuity. Slope and derivative. Same course content as MAT 021A. Enrollment for students in the Emerging Scholars Program by instructor's invitation only.MAT 021BCalculus
Sign upContinuation of MAT 021A. Definition of definite integral, fundamental theorem of calculus, techniques of integration. Application to area, volume, arc length, average of a function, improper integral, surface of revolution. May be taught abroad.MAT 021BHHonors Calculus
Sign upMore intensive treatment of material covered in MAT 021B. Students completing MAT 021BH can continue with MAT 021CH or the regular MAT 021C.MAT 021BLEmerging Scholars Program Calculus Workshop
Sign upContinuation of MAT 021A. Same course content as MAT 021B. Enrollment for students in the Emerging Scholars Program by instructor's invitation only.MAT 021CCalculus
Sign upContinuation of MAT 021B. Sequences, series, tests for convergence, Taylor expansions. Vector algebra, vector calculus, scalar and vector fields. Partial derivatives, total differentials. Applications to maximum and minimum problems in two or more variables. Applications to physical systems.MAT 021CHHonors Calculus
Sign upMore intensive treatment of material covered in MAT 021C.MAT 021CLEmerging Scholars Program Calculus Workshop
Sign upContinuation of MAT 021B. Same course content as MAT 021C. Enrollment for students in the Emerging Scholars Program by instructor's invitation only.MAT 021DVector Analysis
Sign upContinuation of MAT 021C. Definite integrals over plane and solid regions in various coordinate systems. Line and surface integrals. Green's theorem, Stoke's theorem, divergence theorem.MAT 021MAccelerated Calculus
Sign upAccelerated treatment of material from MAT 021A and MAT 021B, with detailed presentation of theory, definitions, and proofs, and treatment of computational aspects of calculus at a condensed but sophisticated level.MAT 022ALinear Algebra
Sign upMatrices and linear transformations, determinants, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, diagonalization, factorization.MAT 022ALLinear Algebra Computer Laboratory
Sign upIntroduction to MATLAB and its use in linear algebra.MAT 022BDifferential Equations
Sign upSolutions of elementary differential equations.MAT 027ALinear Algebra with Applications to Biology
Sign upIntroduction to linear algebra with biological, medical, and bioengineering applications. Matrix algebra, vector spaces, orthogonality, determinants, eigenvalues, eigenvectors, principal component analysis, singular value decomposition, and linear transformations.MAT 027BDifferential Equations with Applications to Biology
Sign upSolutions of differential equations with biological, medical, and bioengineering applications. First and second order linear equations, phase plane analysis, nonlinear dynamics, Laplace transforms, and the diffusion equation. Computer labs cover mathematical and numerical techniques for modeling biological systems.MAT 036Fundamentals of Mathematics
Sign upIntroduction to fundamental mathematical ideas selected from the principal areas of modern mathematics. Properties of the primes, the fundamental theorems of arithmetic, properties of the rationals and irrationals, binary and other number systems.MAT 067Modern Linear Algebra
Sign upRigorous treatment of linear algebra; topics include vector spaces, bases and dimensions, orthogonal projections, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, similarity transformations, singular value decomposition and positive definiteness.MAT 071AExplorations in Elementary Mathematics
Sign upWeekly explorations of mathematical ideas related to the elementary school curriculum will be carried out by cooperative learning groups. Lectures will provide background and synthesize the results of group exploration.MAT 071BExplorations in Elementary Mathematics
Sign upWeekly explorations of mathematical ideas related to the elementary school curriculum will be carried out by cooperative learning groups. Lectures will provide background and synthesize the results of group exploration.MAT 089Elementary Problem Solving
Sign upSolve and present solutions to challenging and interesting problems in elementary mathematics.MAT 107Probability & Stochastic Processes with Applications to Biology
Sign upIntroduction to probability theory and stochastic processes with biological, medical, and bioengineering applications. Combinatorics, discrete and continuous random variables, Bayes' formula, conditional probability, Markov chains, Poisson processes, and Brownian motion.MAT 108Introduction to Abstract Mathematics
Sign upRigorous treatment of mathematical concepts with emphasis on developing the ability to understand abstract mathematical ideas, to read and write mathematical concepts, and to prove theorems. Designed to serve as preparation for the more rigorous upper division courses.MAT 111History of Mathematics
Sign upHistory of mathematics from ancient times through the development of calculus. Mathematics from Arab, Hindu, Chinese and other cultures. Selected topics from the history of modern mathematics.MAT 114Convex Geometry
Sign upTopics selected from the theory of convex bodies, convex functions, geometric inequalities, combinatorial geometry, and integral geometry. Designed to serve as preparation for the more rigorous upper division courses.MAT 115ANumber Theory
Sign upDivisibility and related topics, diophantine equations, selected topics from the theory of prime numbers. Designed to serve as preparation for the more rigorous upper division courses.MAT 115BNumber Theory
Sign upEuler function, Moebius function, congruences, primitive roots, quadratic reciprocity law.MAT 116Differential Geometry
Sign upVector analysis, curves, and surfaces in three dimensions.MAT 118APartial Differential Equations: Elementary Methods
Sign upDerivation of partial differential equations; separation of variables; equilibrium solutions and Laplace's equation; Fourier series; method of characteristics for the one dimensional wave equation. Solution of nonhomogeneous equations.MAT 118BPartial Differential Equations: Eigenfunction Expansions
Sign upSturm-Liouville Theory; selfadjoint operators; mixed boundary conditions; partial differential equations in two and three dimensions; Eigenvalue problems in circular domains; nonhomogeneous problems and the method of eigenfunction expansions; Poisson's Equations.MAT 118CPartial Differential Equations: Green's Functions & Transforms
Sign upGreen's functions for one-dimensional problems and Poisson's equation; Fourier transforms; Green's Functions for time dependent problems; Laplace transform and solution of partial differential equations.MAT 119AOrdinary Differential Equations
Sign upScalar and planar autonomous systems; nonlinear systems and linearization; existence and uniqueness of solutions; matrix solution of linear systems; phase plane analysis; stability analysis; bifurcation theory; Liapunov's method; limit cycles; Poincare Bendixon theory.MAT 119BOrdinary Differential Equations
Sign upLorentz equations; Poincare maps; center manifolds and normal forms; scalar and planar maps; phase space analysis for iterated maps; period-doubling bifurcation; Lyapunov exponent; chaos and symbolic dynamics; strange attractors; fractals.MAT 124Mathematical Biology
Sign upMethods of mathematical modeling of biological systems including difference equations, ordinary differential equations, stochastic and dynamic programming models. Computer simulation methods applied to biological systems. Applications to population growth, cell biology, physiology, evolutionary ecology and protein clustering.MAT 127AReal Analysis
Sign upReal numbers, sequences, series, and continuous functions.MAT 127BReal Analysis
Sign upDerivatives, integrals, sequences of functions, and power series.MAT 127CReal Analysis
Sign upMetric spaces and multi-variable calculus.MAT 128ANumerical Analysis
Sign upError analysis, approximation, interpolation, numerical differentiation and integration. Programming in language such as Pascal, Fortran, or BASIC required.MAT 128BNumerical Analysis in Solution of Equations
Sign upSolution of nonlinear equations and nonlinear systems. Minimization of functions of several variables. Simultaneous linear equations. Eigenvalue problems. Linear programming. Programming in language such as Pascal, Fortran, or BASIC required.MAT 128CNumerical Analysis in Differential Equations
Sign upDifference equations, operators, numerical solutions of ordinary and partial differential equations. Programming in language such as Pascal, Fortran, or BASIC required.MAT 129Fourier Analysis
Sign upFourier series and integrals, orthogonal sets of functions. Topics selected from trigonometric approximation, orthogonal polynomials, applications to signal and image processing, numerical analysis, and differential equations.MAT 133Mathematical Finance
Sign upAnalysis and evaluation of deterministic and random cash flow streams, yield and pricing of basic financial instruments, interest rate theory, mean-variance portfolio theory, capital asset pricing models, utility functions and general principles. MATLAB programming required.MAT 135AProbability
Sign upMAT 135BStochastic Processes
Sign upGenerating functions, branching processes, characteristic function; Markov chains; convergence of random variables, law of iterated logarithm; random processes, Brownian motion, stationary processes, renewal processes, queueing theory, martingales.MAT 141Euclidean Geometry
Sign upAxiomatic and analytic examination of Euclidean geometry from an advanced point of view. In particular, a discussion of its relation to other geometries. Designed to serve as preparation for the more rigorous upper division courses.MAT 145Combinatorics
Sign upCombinatorial methods using basic graph theory, counting methods, generating functions, and recurrence relations. Designed to serve as preparation for the more rigorous upper division courses.MAT 146Algebraic Combinatorics
Sign upEnumeration, Polya theory, generating functions, current topics in algebraic combinatorics.MAT 147Topology
Sign upBasic notions of point-set and combinatorial topology.MAT 148Discrete Mathematics
Sign upCoding theory, error correcting codes, finite fields and the algebraic concepts needed in their development.MAT 150AModern Algebra
Sign upBasic concepts of groups, symmetries of the plane. Emphasis on the techniques used in the proof of the ideas (Lemmas, Theorems, etc.) developing these concepts. Precise thinking, proof writing, and the ability to deal with abstraction.MAT 150BModern Algebra
Sign upBilinear forms, rings, factorization, modules.MAT 150CModern Algebra
Sign upGroup representations, fields, Galois theory.MAT 165Mathematics & Computers
Sign upIntroduction to computational mathematics, symbolic computation, and computer generated/verified proofs in algebra, analysis and geometry. Investigation of rigorous new mathematics developed in conjunction with modern computational questions and the role that computers play in mathematical conjecture and experimentation.MAT 167Applied Linear Algebra
Sign upApplications of linear algebra; LU and QR matrix factorizations, eigenvalue and singular value matrix decompositions.MAT 168Optimization
Sign upLinear programming, simplex method. Basic properties of unconstrained nonlinear problems, descent methods, conjugate direction method. Constrained minimization. Programming language required.MAT 170Mathematics for Data Analytics & Decision Making
Sign upRelational model; relational algebra, relational calculus, normal forms, functional and multivalued dependencies, separability. Cost benefit analysis of physical database design and reorganization. Performance via analytical modeling, simulation, and queueing theory.MAT 185AComplex Analysis
Sign upComplex number system, analyticity and the Cauchy-Riemann equations, elementary functions, complex integration, power and Laurent series expansions, residue theory.MAT 185BComplex Analysis
Sign upAnalytical functions, elementary functions and their mapping properties, applications of Cauchy's integral theorem, conformal mapping and applications to heat flow and fluid mechanics.MAT 189Advanced Problem Solving
Sign upSolution and presentation of advanced problem solving techniques. Solve and present interesting and challenging problems of all areas of mathematics.MAT 201AAnalysis
Sign upMetric and normed spaces. Continuous functions. Topological, Hilbert, and Banach spaces. Fourier series. Spectrum of bounded and compact linear operators. Linear differential operators and Green's functions. Distributions. Fourier transform. Measure theory. Lp and Sobolev spaces. Differential calculus and variational methods.MAT 201BAnalysis
Sign upMetric and normed spaces. Continuous functions. Topological, Hilbert, and Banach spaces. Fourier series. Spectrum of bounded and compact linear operators. Linear differential operators and Green's functions. Distributions. Fourier transform. Measure theory. Lp and Sobolev spaces. Differential calculus and variational methods.MAT 201CAnalysis
Sign upMetric and normed spaces. Continuous functions. Topological, Hilbert, and Banach spaces. Fourier series. Spectrum of bounded and compact linear operators. Linear differential operators and Green's functions. Distributions. Fourier transform. Measure theory. Lp and Sobolev spaces. Differential calculus and variational methods.MAT 202Functional Analysis
Sign upHahn-Banach, Open mapping, Closed graph, Banach-Steinhaus, and Krein-Milman. Subspaces and quotient spaces. Projections. Weak and weak-star topologies. Compact and adjoint operators in Banach spaces. Fredholm theory. Functions of operators. Spectral theory of self-adjoint operators.MAT 205Complex Analysis
Sign upAnalytic continuation, Riemann surfaces, conformal mappings, Riemann mapping theorem, entire functions, special functions, elliptic functions.MAT 205AComplex Analysis
Sign upCauchy's theorem, Cauchy's integral formulas, meromorphic functions, complex logarithm, entire functions, Weierstrass infinite product formula, the gamma and zeta functions, and prime number theorem.MAT 205BComplex Analysis
Sign upConformal mappings, the Schwarz lemma, analytic automorphisms, the Riemann mapping theorem, elliptic functions, Eisenstein series, the Jacobi theta functions, asymptotics, Bessel functions, the Airy function, topics on special functions and Riemann surfaces.MAT 206Measure Theory
Sign upIntroduction to measure theory. The study of lengths, surface areas, and volumes in general spaces, as related to integration theory.MAT 207AMethods of Applied Mathematics
Sign upOrdinary differential equations and dynamical systems. Variational principles. Eigenfunctions, integral equations and Green's functions. Complex analysis and contour integration. Laplace's equation. Diffusion equations. Wave phenomena. Dimensional analysis and scaling. Asymptotic expansions and perturbation theory.MAT 207BMethods of Applied Mathematics
Sign upOrdinary differential equations and dynamical systems. Variational principles. Eigenfunctions, integral equations and Green's functions. Complex analysis and contour integration. Laplace's equation. Diffusion equations. Wave phenomena. Dimensional analysis and scaling. Asymptotic expansions and perturbation theory.MAT 207CMethods of Applied Mathematics
Sign upOrdinary differential equations and dynamical systems. Variational principles. Eigenfunctions, integral equations and Green's functions. Complex analysis and contour integration. Laplace's equation. Diffusion equations. Wave phenomena. Dimensional analysis and scaling. Asymptotic expansions and perturbation theory.MAT 215ATopology
Sign upFundamental group and covering space theory. Homology and cohomology. Manifolds and duality. CW complexes. Fixed point theorems.MAT 215BTopology
Sign upFundamental group and covering space theory. Homology and cohomology. Manifolds and duality. CW complexes. Fixed point theorems.MAT 215CTopology
Sign upFundamental group and covering space theory. Homology and cohomology. Manifolds and duality. CW complexes. Fixed point theorems.MAT 216Geometric Topology
Sign upTopology of two- and three-dimensional manifolds. Surfaces and their diffeomorphisms. Dehn twists. Heegaard surfaces. Theory of 3-dimensional manifolds. Knots and knot theory. Hyperbolic manifolds and geometric structures.MAT 218APartial Differential Equations
Sign upYear-long sequence on PDEs which covers linear transport, Laplace, heat, and wave equations, maximum principles, method of characteristics, Sobelev and Hölder space theory, weak derivatives, semilinear, quasilinear, and fully nonlinear elliptic/parabolic equations, nonlinear hyperbolic equations, and compensated compactness.MAT 218BPartial Differential Equations
Sign upYear-long sequence on PDEs which covers linear transport, Laplace, heat, and wave equations, maximum principles, method of characteristics, Sobelev and Hölder space theory, weak derivatives, semilinear, quasilinear, and fully nonlinear elliptic/parabolic equations, nonlinear hyperbolic equations, and compensated compactness.MAT 218CPartial Differential Equations
Sign upYear-long sequence on PDEs which covers linear transport, Laplace, heat, and wave equations, maximum principles, method of characteristics, Sobelev and Hölder space theory, weak derivatives, semilinear, quasilinear, and fully nonlinear elliptic/parabolic equations, nonlinear hyperbolic equations, and compensated compactness.MAT 221AMathematical Fluid Dynamics
Sign upKinematics and dynamics of fluids. The Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. Vorticity dynamics. Irrotational flow. Low Reynolds number flows and the Stokes equations. High Reynolds number flows and boundary layers. Compressible fluids. Shock waves.MAT 221BMathematical Fluid Dynamics
Sign upKinematics and dynamics of fluids. The Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. Vorticity dynamics. Irrotational flow. Low Reynolds number flows and the Stokes equations. High Reynolds number flows and boundary layers. Compressible fluids. Shock waves.MAT 226ANumerical Methods: Fundamentals
Sign upFundamental principles and methods in numerical analysis, including the concepts of stability of algorithms and conditioning of numerical problems, numerical methods for interpolation and integration, eigenvalue problems, singular value decomposition and its applications.MAT 226BNumerical Methods: Large-Scale Matrix Computations
Sign upNumerical methods for large-scale matrix computations, including direct and iterative methods for the solution of linear systems, the computation of eigenvalues and singular values, the solution of least-squares problems, matrix compression, methods for the solution of linear programs.MAT 226CNumerical Methods: Ordinary Differential Equations
Sign upNumerical methods for the solution of ordinary differential equations, including methods for initial-value problems and two-point boundary-value problems, theory of and methods for differential algebraic equations, dimension reduction of large-scale dynamical systems.MAT 227Mathematical Biology
Sign upNonlinear ordinary and partial differential equations and stochastic processes of cell and molecular biology. Scaling, qualitative, and numerical analysis of mathematical models. Applications to nerve impulse, chemotaxis, muscle contraction, and morphogenesis.MAT 228ANumerical Solution of Differential Equations
Sign upNumerical solutions of initial-value, eigenvalue and boundary-value problems for ordinary differential equations. Numerical solution of parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations.MAT 228BNumerical Solution of Differential Equations
Sign upNumerical solutions of initial-value, eigenvalue and boundary-value problems for ordinary differential equations. Numerical solution of parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations.MAT 228CNumerical Solution of Differential Equations
Sign upNumerical solutions of initial-value, eigenvalue and boundary-value problems for ordinary differential equations. Numerical solution of parabolic and hyperbolic partial differential equations.MAT 235AProbability Theory
Sign upMeasure-theoretic foundations, abstract integration, independence, laws of large numbers, characteristic functions, central limit theorems. Weak convergence in metric spaces, Brownian motion, invariance principle. Conditional expectation. Topics selected from: martingales, Markov chains, ergodic theory.MAT 235BProbability Theory
Sign upMeasure-theoretic foundations, abstract integration, independence, laws of large numbers, characteristic functions, central limit theorems. Weak convergence in metric spaces, Brownian motion, invariance principle. Conditional expectation. Topics selected from: martingales, Markov chains, ergodic theory.MAT 235CProbability Theory
Sign upMeasure-theoretic foundations, abstract integration, independence, laws of large numbers, characteristic functions, central limit theorems. Weak convergence in metric spaces, Brownian motion, invariance principle. Conditional expectation. Topics selected from: martingales, Markov chains, ergodic theory.MAT 236AStochastic Dynamics & Applications
Sign upStochastic processes, Brownian motion, Stochastic integration, martingales, stochastic differential equations. Diffusions, connections with partial differential equations, mathematical finance.MAT 236BStochastic Dynamics & Applications
Sign upStochastic processes, Brownian motion, Stochastic integration, martingales, stochastic differential equations. Diffusions, connections with partial differential equations, mathematical finance.MAT 239Differential Topology
Sign upTopics include: differentiable manifolds, vector fields, transversality, Sard's theorem, examples of differentiable manifolds; orientation, intersection theory, index of vector fields; differential forms, integration, Stokes' theorm, deRham cohomology; Morse functions, Morse lemma, index of critical points.MAT 240ADifferential Geometry
Sign upRiemannian metrics, connections, geodesics, Gauss lemma, convex neighborhoods, curvature tensor, Ricci and scalar curvature, connections and curvature on vector bundles.MAT 240BDifferential Geometry
Sign upJacobi fields, conjugate points, completeness, Hopf-Rinow theorem, Cartan-Hadamard theorem, energy, variation theorems and their applications, Rauch comparison theorem and its applications.MAT 245Enumerative Combinatorics
Sign upIntroduction to modern combinatorics and its applications. Emphasis on enumerative aspects of combinatorial theory.MAT 246Algebraic Combinatorics
Sign upAlgebraic and geometric aspects of combinatorics. The use of structures such as groups, polytopes, rings, and simplicial complexes to solve combinatorial problems.MAT 248AAlgebraic Geometry
Sign upAffine varieties and radical ideals. Projective varieties. Abstract varieties. Morphisms and rational maps. Smoothness. Algebraic curves and the Riemann-Roch theorem. Special topics.MAT 248BAlgebraic Geometry
Sign upComplex varieties and the analytic topology. Sheaves and schemes. Fiber products. Separatedness and properness. Applications of scheme theory.MAT 249Problem-Solving in Algebra
Sign upProblem-solving in graduate algebra: groups, rings, modules, matrices, tensor products, representations, Galois theory, ring extensions, commutative algebra and homological algebra.MAT 250AAlgebra
Sign upGroup and rings. Sylow theorems, abelian groups, Jordan-Holder theorem. Rings, unique factorization. Algebras, and modules. Fields and vector spaces over fields. Field extensions. Commutative rings. Representation theory and its applications.MAT 250BAlgebra
Sign upGroup and rings. Sylow theorems, abelian groups, Jordan-Holder theorem. Rings, unique factorization. Algebras, and modules. Fields and vector spaces over fields. Field extensions. Commutative rings. Representation theory and its applications.MAT 250CAlgebra
Sign upGroup and rings. Sylow theorems, abelian groups, Jordan-Holder theorem. Rings, unique factorization. Algebras, and modules. Fields and vector spaces over fields. Field extensions. Commutative rings. Representation theory and its applications.MAT 258ANumerical Optimization
Sign upNumerical methods for infinite dimensional optimization problems. Newton and Quasi-Newton methods, linear and sequential quadratic programming, barrier methods; large-scale optimization; theory of approximations; infinite and semi-infinite programming; applications to optimal control, stochastic optimization and distributed systems.MAT 258BDiscrete & Mixed-Integer Optimization
Sign upCombinatorial, integer, and mixed-integer linear optimization problems. Ideal and strong formulations, cutting planes, branch and cut, decomposition methods.MAT 261ALie Groups & Their Representations
Sign upLie groups and Lie algebras. Classification of semi-simple Lie groups. Classical and compact Lie groups. Representations of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Root systems, weights, Weil character formula. Kac-Moody and Virasoro algebras. Applications.MAT 261BLie Groups & Their Representations
Sign upLie groups and Lie algebras. Classification of semi-simple Lie groups. Classical and compact Lie groups. Representations of Lie groups and Lie algebras. Root systems, weights, Weil character formula. Kac-Moody and Virasoro algebras. Applications.MAT 265Mathematical Quantum Mechanics
Sign upMathematical foundations of quantum mechanics: the Hilbert space and Operator Algebra formulations; the Schrödinger and Heisenberg equations, symmetry in quantum mechanics, basics of spectral theory and perturbation theory. Applications to atoms and molecules. The Dirac equation.MAT 266Mathematical Statistical Mechanics & Quantum Field Theory
Sign upMathematical principles of statistical mechanics and quantum field theory. Topics include classical and quantum lattice systems, variational principles, spontaneous symmetry breaking and phase transitions, second quantization and Fock space, and fundamentals of quantum field theory.MAT 270Mathematics of Data Science
Sign upMathematical methods and algorithms that are fundamental to a variety of data science applications. Theoretical foundations and inner workings of popular algorithms used in data science, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. Implementation and application of these algorithms to real-world data sets.MAT 271Applied & Computational Harmonic Analysis
Sign upIntroduction to mathematical basic building blocks (wavelets, local Fourier basis, and their relatives) useful for diverse fields (signal and image processing, numerical analysis, and statistics). Emphasis on the connection between the continuum and the discrete worlds.
MCB23 courses
MCB 010Introduction to Human Heredity
Sign upTopics in human heredity and human gene structure and function, including the genetic basis of human development, causes of birth defects, mental retardation, genetic diseases, sexual determination, development, and behavior.MCB 023Biography of Cancer: Past, Present & Future
Sign upHistorical account of the progression of cancer treatment, prevention, and human understanding of the biological basis of cancer. Past, present and future social implications of cancer treatment and prevention. May be taught abroad.MCB 112Communicating Research in the Biological Sciences
Sign upWriting and communicating research concepts in the biological sciences for scientific audiences. Refining brief, informal, oral descriptions of research, writing documents required for graduate school applications, preparing conference posters, and drafting proposals for scientific fellowships.MCB 120Molecular Biology & Biochemistry Laboratory Associated Lecture
Sign upIntroduction to laboratory methods and procedures employed in studying molecular biology and biochemical processes. Lecture component for MCB 120L.MCB 120LMolecular Biology & Biochemistry Laboratory
Sign upIntroduction to laboratory methods and procedures employed in studying molecular biology and biochemical processes. Designed for students who need experience in use of molecular biology and biochemical techniques as research and analytical tools.MCB 121Advanced Molecular Biology
Sign upStructure, expression, and regulation of eukaryotic genes. Chromosome structure and replication; gene structure, transcription, and RNA processing; protein synthesis and translation control; development, immune system, and oncogenes.MCB 123Behavior & Analysis of Enzyme & Receptor Systems
Sign upIntroduction to the principles of enzyme kinetics and receptor-ligand interactions with emphasis on metabolic regulation and data analysis. Topics include simultaneous equilibria, chemical and steady-state kinetics, allosteric enzymes, mulitreactant systems, enzyme assays, membrane transport and computer-assisted simulations and analyses.MCB 124Macromolecular Structure & Function
Sign upIn-depth investigation into protein and nucleic acid structure and thermodynamics and how these properties influence their biological functions. Key examples of important functional classes of these molecules are examined.MCB 126Plant Biochemistry
Sign upThe biochemistry of important plant processes and metabolic pathways. Discussion of methods used to understand plant processes, including use of transgenic plants.MCB 140Cell Biology Laboratory Associated Lecture
Sign upLectures illustrating the principles of cell biology with emphasis on light microscopy. Accompanies MCB 140L.MCB 140LCell Biology Laboratory
Sign upExercises illustrating the principles of cell biology with emphasis on light microscopy.MCB 142Advanced Cell Biology: Contractile & Motile Systems
Sign upAdvanced cell biology with emphasis on molecular, biophysical and cellular properties of contractile and motile systems.MCB 143Cell & Molecular Biophysics
Sign upPhysical chemical principles by which molecules form living, moving, reproducing cells. Physical nature of cytoplasm; molecular structure/bonding in macromolecules, macromolecular assemblies and protein machines.MCB 144Mechanisms of Cell Division
Sign upThe molecules and mechanisms that allow eukaryotic cells to coordinate cell growth, DNA replication, segregation of chromosomes and cell division.MCB 145Assembly & Function of Cell Signaling Machinery
Sign upMolecular basis of cell signaling, including positioning of cellular machinery, components of various signaling pathways, and downstream effects of signaling on cell adhesion, cell differentiation, and programmed cell death.MCB 150Developmental Biology
Sign upAnalysis of the mechanistic basis for animal development with a focus on experimental evidence and the relevant fundamental experimental strategies. Fertilization and early development, morphogenesis and patterning, cell differentiation, regulation of cell proliferation and tissue growth.MCB 160Genetics Laboratory Associated Lecture
Sign upLecture instruction in the theoretical basis of laboratory techniques in transmission and molecular genetics, discussion of lab results and experiment interpretation.MCB 160LPrinciples of Genetics Laboratory
Sign upLaboratory work in basic and molecular genetics including gene mapping, isolation and characterization of mutants in eukaryotic model systems, reverse genetics, gel electrophoresis, recombinant DNA techniques, and PCR.MCB 162Human Genetics & Genomics
Sign upHuman genome and genetic variation in human populations, molecular and genomic approaches in the practice of human genetics, epigenetic gene regulation, personal genetics and genomic medicine.MCB 163Developmental Genetics
Sign upCurrent aspects of developmental genetics. Historical background and current genetic approaches to the study of development of higher animals.MCB 164Advanced Eukaryotic Genetics
Sign upPrinciples and logic of modern genetic analysis to understand mechanisms governing Mendelian and epigenetic inheritance, with a focus on model organisms. Molecular basis of human genetic diseases and cancers explored through reading primary literature.MCB 182Principles of Genomics
Sign upFundamentals of genomics, including structural genomics, functional genomics, proteomics, and bioinformatics, focusing on the impact of these disciplines on research in the biological sciences. Social impacts of genomic research.MCB 185Computer Programming for Biologists
Sign upIntroduction to computer programming specifically for biology majors. Programming projects have molecular biology and bioinformatic themes.
MGT73 courses
MGT 011AElementary Accounting
Sign upBasic concepts of accounting; interpreting and using financial statements; understanding accounting principles.MGT 011BElementary Accounting
Sign upTheory of product costing; Analyzing the role and impact of accounting information on decision making; planning and performance evaluation.MGT 012YNavigating Life's Financial Decisions
Sign upSurvey of major life financial decisions (e.g., career choice, consumption v. saving, investments, mortgages, insurance) and how decision-making biases (e.g., overconfidence, present bias, limited attention) can lead to suboptimal choice. Draws on research from economics, psychology, and sociology.MGT 100Introduction to Financial Accounting
Sign upIntroduction to the concepts, methods, and uses of accounting and financial reporting.MGT 101Sources & Uses of Accounting Information
Sign upDevelops an understanding of the supply and demand of accounting information. Topics include the generation and processing of accounting information, the examination of accounting information by auditors, and the use of accounting information by capital markets and tax authorities.MGT 103Intermediate Financial Accounting I
Sign upBegin to develop expertise in the accounting for assets and introduce analysis of financial statements.MGT 105Intermediate Financial Accounting II
Sign upContinue to develop expertise in the preparation of financial statements by studying the accounting for liabilities and stockholders' equity. Examines the accounting for contracts that can have significant effects on firms' financial statements.MGT 107Intermediate Financial Accounting III
Sign upFinishes the Intermediate Financial Accounting series by examining in depth the accounting for contracts related to pensions and leases. Preparation of the statement of cash flows and footnote disclosures.MGT 120Managing & Using Information Technology
Sign upDevelop an analytical framework to manage and monitor business systems concerned with operational, human, and organizational interactions. Introduction to computer hardware, systems software, and information systems. Management of information technology and the impact of information systems on modern management.MGT 140Marketing for the Technology-Based Enterprise
Sign upQuantitative analysis of needs in a product (technology-based) economy, with emphasis on how scientists, engineers, and business people interact to develop and market products and services.MGT 150Technology Management
Sign upManagement of firms in high technology industries such as software development and biotechnology research. Motivating and managing workers, organizing for innovation, and making decisions.MGT 160Financing New Business Ventures
Sign upConcepts/methods used to structure and finance new business ventures. Topics include evaluating the net social (financial) benefit of new investment projects; raising venture capital; the role of the venture capitalist; and the choice of organizational structure in new ventures.MGT 170Management Accounting & Control
Sign upCovers the design of cost accounting systems, the preparation of financial budgets and forecasts, cost analysis, and the use of cost and other financial data to motivate and evaluate the performance of business units and managers.MGT 180Supply Chain Planning & Management
Sign upDevelops key concepts and relationships between supply chain design and business models and strategies. Much of the focus is on quantitative techniques for analysis & management of the production and delivery of goods & services by an organization.MGT 200AFinancial Accounting
Sign upIntroduction to the concepts and objectives underlying the preparation of financial statements.Topics include understanding the accounting cycle, measurement and valuation problems associated with financial statement components, consideration of the usefulness of financial statements in the analysis of a corporation's operations.MGT 200BManagerial Accounting
Sign upInformation managers should know to be effective, including: product costing, motivating people, and differential analysis for decision making. Includes team projects and written and oral presentations.MGT 201AThe Individual & Group Dynamics
Sign upExamines basic psychological and social psychological processes shaping human behavior and applies knowledge of these processes to the following organizational problems: motivation, job design, commitment, socialization, culture, individual and group decision making, and team building.MGT 201BOrganizational Strategy & Structure
Sign upStrategic management of organizations, including analysis of industries, firm resources and capabilities and corporate strategy. Strategy formulation, implementation and strategic decision-making. Firm and industry life cycles and change. Analysis of organizational design and structure including differentiation and integration.MGT 202AMarkets & the Firm
Sign upExamines the interaction of consumers, firms and government, and the effect this interaction has on the use of resources and firm profitability. Fundamental economic concepts such as marginal analysis, opportunity cost, pricing, and externalities are introduced and applied.MGT 202BBusiness, Government, & the International Economy
Sign upExamines the influence of government and international factors on business. Topics include distribution of income, business cycles, inflation and interest rates, the federal debt, monetary policy and international trade and finance.MGT 203AData Analysis for Managers
Sign upIntroduction to statistics and data analysis for managerial decision making. Descriptive statistics, principles of data collection, sampling, quality control, statistical inference. Application of data analytic methods to problems in marketing, finance, accounting, production, operations, and public policy.MGT 203BForecasting & Managerial Research Methods
Sign upPractical statistical methods for managerial decision making covers regression analysis, time series analysis and forecasting, design and analysis of experiments in managerial research and contingency table analysis. Application of these methods to marketing, finance, accounting, production, operations, and public policy.MGT 204Marketing Management
Sign upAnalysis of market opportunities, elements of market research, development of marketing strategies, market planning and implementations, and control systems. Consumer and industrial markets, market segmentation, pricing strategies, distribution channels, promotion, and sales.MGT 205Financial Theory & Policy
Sign upCorporate financial policy and investment management. Covers capital budgeting, optimal financial structure, cost-of-capital determination, risk measurement.MGT 206Decision Making & Management Science
Sign upDevelops decision-making and problem-solving skills in conjunction with a quantitative model-building approach. Emphasizes how structured modeling techniques, probability forecasts, simulations, and computer optimization models are used in the overall process of making decisions in an uncertain environment.MGT 207Management Information Systems
Sign upIntroduction to computer programming and data handling skills. Use of computer in organizations, emphasis on managerial aspects of computing. Standard and nonstandard uses of data files, centralization versus decentralization of computing, office automation, computer security.MGT 215Business Law
Sign upIntroduction to law and legal process in the United States. Sources of law. Structure and operation of courts, federal-state relationships, fundamentals of administrative law, fundamentals of business law.MGT 216Managing Professionals, Budgets, Controls & Ethics
Sign upPerformance measures, budgetary controls and ethical pressures which occur at middle management levels in service-type operations. Addresses such organizations as engineering, medical groups, law offices, management consultants.MGT 220Management of Social Networks
Sign upPrinciples and applications of social network theory: coordinating divergent interests to create value for individuals and organizations. Emphasis on conceptual models, web-based diagnostic tools, and practical applications.MGT 223Power & Influence in Management
Sign upInvestigation of the bases of power in organizations and the tactics used to translate power into influence. Topics include the control of resources (including information), social psychological processes (including commitment), the construction of meaning, and ethics.MGT 224Managing People in High-Performance Organizations
Sign upStrategic approach to the management of people within organization. Analyze employment systems' fit with firms' environments and strategies. Explore consequences of choices firms make in managing people; decisions as to selection, performance evaluation, compensation, and other management policies and practices.MGT 234Pricing
Sign upCombines lectures, cases and homework to teach students tools and skills necessary to analyze pricing situations, make pricing decisions, and implement them, in a systematic manner.MGT 239Digital Marketing
Sign upEquips students for a career in digital marketing and social media. Topics include online advertising, search engine optimization, interactive mktg, online privacy issues, e-commerce, social influence, social network theory, measurement of social influence and integrating social and traditional media.MGT 240Management Policy & Strategy
Sign upExamines the scope of missions, objectives strategies, policies, structures, measurements and incentives which bear on the management of an organization. Real client organizations, in the private and public sectors, are assigned to student teams as the subjects of study.MGT 241New Product Development
Sign upState-of-the-art concepts and methods to enhance the effectiveness of new product development activities. Focuses on the understanding of managerial issues and acquiring the ability to solve problems.MGT 242Marketing Communications
Sign upIssues in designing a marketing communications strategy. Topics include mass and direct communications, institutional aspects of advertising, consumer behavior, evaluating ad effectiveness, determining ad budget, creative strategy, and use and abuse of promotions.MGT 243Customer Relationship Management
Sign upCustomer Relationship Management (CRM) is a management approach under which marketing activities are organized and measured around customers (rather than around brands.) This approach is appealing because customers, not brands, are those who make buying decisions.MGT 244New & Small Business Ventures
Sign upStudent teams develop complete business plans for their own start-up ventures.MGT 245Business Writing
Sign upTechniques for sharpening writing skills are introduced, along with grammatical structure, word choice, and punctuation. Learn to develop styles that are pitch-perfect for given situations and to think strategically about each communication challenge in a management setting.MGT 246Negotiation & Team Building
Sign upBasic theory of negotiation; applies theory to process of building teams to achieve business purposes. Covers integrative and distributive strategies of claiming value, how to recognize bargaining tricks, uncovering hidden agendas, brainstorming to extend Pareto frontier.MGT 247Customer Service as a Marketing Tool
Sign upUnderstanding the distinct features of services, how to create value through service, methods of building strong relationships with customers, methods of measuring and building customer satisfaction, and measuring the financial impact of service improvement.MGT 248Marketing Strategies
Sign upExamines process by which organizations develop strategic marketing plans. Includes definition of activities and products, marketing audits, appraising market opportunities, design of new activities and products, and organizing marketing planning function. Applications to problems in private and public sector marketing.MGT 249Marketing Research
Sign upAddresses the managerial issues and problems of systematically gathering and analyzing information for making private and public marketing decisions. Covers the cost and value of information, research design, information collection, measuring instruments, data analysis, and marketing research applications.MGT 250Technology, Competition & Strategy
Sign upWhy is software typically so defective? Why do many firms in the IT industry give away their best products free? Helps analyze questions like these by modeling competition and strategy in the network, technology and information industries.MGT 251Management of Innovation
Sign upManaging innovative enterprise in changing and uncertain environments. Covers technology forecasting and assessment, program selection and control, financial management, regulation, and ethics.MGT 252Managing for Operational Excellence
Sign upExplores the management of operations as applied to manufacturing as well as services provided both inside and outside the organization. Develop an understanding of how uncertainty affects planning and delivery by looking at fundamental models of operations.MGT 253Corporate Social Responsibility
Sign upDevelop a thought process and approach to corporate social responsibility that students will be able to build on during their post-school leadership roles, whether as corporate executives, entrepreneurs, or NGO leaders.MGT 255Entrepreneurship & Venture Investment Clinic
Sign upProvides the necessary analytical and design tools to create business ideas and refine business models based on emerging technologies. Students learn to work closely in small teams to synthesize technical, strategic, and marketing needs into designs for new ventures.MGT 258Mergers & Acquisitions
Sign upFocuses on the market for corporate acquisitions and restructuring activity. Topics include: sources of value creation; takeovers; anti-takeover provisions; bidding strategies; use of leverage in buyouts; regulatory risk and hurdles; and, valuation approaches for highly leveraged transactions.MGT 259Banking & the Financial System
Sign upAnalyzes the role of financial markets and institutions in allocating capital. Focuses on: bank lending; debt securities; financial market innovations; regulation; functions of commercial banks and other financial intermediaries. Utilizes case studies.MGT 260Corporate Finance
Sign upFocuses on planning, acquiring, and managing a company's financial resources. Includes discussion of financial aspects of mergers and other forms of reorganization; analysis of investment, financial, and dividend policy; and theories of optimal capital structure.MGT 261Investment Analysis
Sign upExamines asset pricing theories and relevant evidence, including the investment performance of stocks and bonds. Topics include the efficiency of markets, domestic and international portfolio diversification, factors influencing the value of stocks and other investments, and portfolio management and performance.MGT 262Money & Security Markets
Sign upExamines how money and securities markets are organized; how public agencies, businesses, others obtain and invest funds in those markets. Relationship between interest rates, monetary policy, government's role in improving capital markets, approaches to assessing changes in regulation of specific markets.MGT 263Derivative Securities
Sign upBehavior of options, futures, and other derivative securities markets and how public agencies, business and others use those markets. Trading strategies involving options, swaps, and financial futures contracts. Pricing of derivative securities, primarily by arbitrage methods.MGT 264Business Taxation
Sign upAnalysis of the impact of business taxation on investment, production, and finance decisions. Discussion of the relationship between business organization and tax liability. Not intended for tax specialists.MGT 265Technology Finance & Valuation
Sign upVenture capital finance and the related practice of research and development finance. Application of finance tools and framework to the world of venture capital and financing of projects in high-growth industries.MGT 266International Finance
Sign upStudies fixed and floating exchange-rate systems. Topics include determinants of a nation's balance of international payments; macroeconomic interdependence of nations under various exchange-rate regimes and its implications for domestic stabilization policies; and the international coordination of monetary and stabilization policies.MGT 267Teams & Technology
Sign upTheory and practice of managing teams with primary goals of: providing conceptual guidelines for analyzing and diagnosing group dynamics and determining strategic options as a manager; imparting interpersonal skills for implementing effective strategies; understanding how technological change affects team processes.MGT 268Articulation & Critical Thinking
Sign upCommitment to this course, become competent public speakers, write well at a level expected in business, think efficiently and critically about business challenges and have a useful personal code of ethics to shape their actions and decisions. No student may repeat course for credit.MGT 269Machine Learning with Python
Sign upIntroduction to machine learning methods covering association rules, clustering, classification, and numeric prediction. Hands-on machine learning skills with Python. Big data technologies. Business applications.MGT 270Corporate Financial Reporting
Sign upAnalyzes and evaluates contemporary issues in financial reporting and develops implications of those issues for business decision makers, investment managers, and accounting policymakers.MGT 271Strategic Cost Management
Sign upTheoretical frameworks and associated techniques for using organizational design and cost management to achieve a sustainable, profitable cost structure. Topics include: target costing, process design for low cost, total cost of ownership, cost of customers, implementing structural change, and incentives.MGT 272Evaluation of Financial Information
Sign upStudies how investors, creditors, others use accounting and other information in making rational investment, lending decisions. Emphasis is placed on the analysis of financial information in a variety of contexts. Where applicable, recent research in finance and economics is discussed.MGT 273Accounting & Reporting for Government Nonprofit Entities
Sign upConcepts, methods, and uses of accounting and financial reporting by governmental and nonprofit entities. Introduction to budgeting and performance evaluation, and accounting for entities such as hospitals, universities, and welfare agencies.MGT 274Corporate Governance
Sign upDiscusses how corporations can better operate in the interests of shareholders and public. Directly relevant to managers, consultants in compensation and incentives, staff working on mergers and acquisitions, corporate regulators, shareholder rights activists, and board members.MGT 276Real Estate, Finance & Development
Sign upFocus on single family, attached, detached, multi-family, and light commercial development. Students will study factors which make up successful real estate developments. Considers financial aspects involved in land acquisition, land development, construction, and project lending.MGT 281Systems Analysis & Design
Sign upDesign and specification of computer-based information systems. Applications systems development life cycle, use requirements and feasibility assessment, logical and physical design, program development and testing, conversion and implementation.MGT 282Supply Chain Management
Sign upMatching supply with demand is a primary challenge for a firm: excess supply is too costly, inadequate supply irritates customers. Matching supply to demand is easiest when a firm has a flexible supply process, but flexibility is generally expensive.MGT 284Applied Linear Models for Management
Sign upCovers regression, analysis of variance, and multivariate analysis. Topics will focus on applications to management and policy problems.MGT 285Time Series Analysis & Forecasting
Sign upConsiders application of time series methods to evaluation and forecasting problems. Covers univariate and multivariate ARIMA models and transfer function models. Applications will be in such areas as economics, finance, budgeting, program evaluation, and industrial process control.MGT 286Telecommunications & Computer Networks
Sign upCommunication system components; common carrier services; design and control of communications networks; network management and distributed environment; local area networks; data security in computer networks.MGT 287Business Database & Database Marketing
Sign upPractical introduction to fundamental principles of database management systems and database marketing. Database design. SQL queries. Concepts of database marketing, data warehouse, data visualization and big data analytics.MGT 288Special Topics in Management of Information Systems
Sign upManagerial aspects of information systems. Topics stressing applications in organizations chosen from: economics of computers and information systems, decision support systems, management of computer-based information systems, office automation.
MIB3 courses
MIB 200AMicrobial Biology
Sign upDesigned to provide an overview of various aspects of microbiology and microbial processes. Topics will include microbial genetics and genomics, microbial metabolism, signaling, and adaptations.MIB 201LAdvanced Microbiology Laboratory Rotations
Sign upTwo five-week assignments in microbiology research laboratories. Individual research problems with emphasis on methodological/procedural experience and experimental design.MIB 210Microbial Interactions
Sign upAnalysis at the molecular level of the interactions of microbes with the environment, microbes with other microbes, and microbes in symbiotic and/or pathogenic associations with eukaryotic hosts. Topics discussed will vary.
MIC32 courses
MIC 010Natural History of Infectious Diseases
Sign upTopics in the natural history of infectious diseases principally affecting humans. Introduction to infectious microbial agents, ecology, epidemiology, and induction of disease. Focus on diseases of a contemporary nature.MIC 101Introductory Microbiology
Sign upSurvey of microorganisms emphasizing their interactions with humans and diseases. Topics include microscopy, survey of various microbes, the immune system, food microbiology, microbial pathogens, and mechanisms of disease transmission. Designed for students requiring microbiology for professional schools.MIC 102Introductory Microbiology
Sign upEssentials of microbial biology, emphasizing phylogeny, physiology, genetics, ecology, and pathogenesis. Interactions with other microbes, humans, and the biosphere. Uses of microbes in agriculture and biotechnology. May be taught abroad.MIC 103LIntroductory Microbiology Laboratory
Sign upIntroduction to principles and laboratory methods employed in working with microorganisms. Designed for students requiring microbiology for professional school admission. May be taught abroad.MIC 104LGeneral Microbiology Laboratory
Sign upPrinciples and laboratory methods employed in working with microorganisms. Designed for students continuing in microbiology, genetics, or biochemistry.MIC 105Microbial Diversity
Sign upSurvey of the major groups of microorganisms emphasizing diversity of energy metabolism, morphology, evolution, and natural history.MIC 105LMicrobial Diversity Laboratory
Sign upClassical enrichments for the isolation of metabolically diverse microbes; modern molecular methods for the identification of isolates; cultivation independent analysis of microbial communities from local environmental samples.MIC 111Human Microbiology
Sign upBiology of microorganisms that form commensal, mutualistic, and pathogenic relationships with human beings, emphasizing their phylogeny, physiology, genetics, and ecology. Effects on human nutrition, development and physiology. Mechanisms of pathogenesis, immune response evasion, antibiotic action, and antibiotic resistance.MIC 115Recombinant DNA Cloning & Analysis
Sign upCloning and analysis of recombinant DNA, with emphasis on Escherichia coli host-vector systems. DNA-modifying enzymes; vectors and their use; manipulation and expression of insert DNA; polymerase chain reaction; and sequence annotation. Graduate students see MIC 215.MIC 117Analysis of Molecular Genetic Circuits
Sign upProject-based course focused on problem-solving strategies in biology and medicine. Testing hypotheses by translating real-world problems into an appropriate mathematical model and translating the results into real-world understanding.MIC 120Microbial Ecology
Sign upInteractions between non-pathogenic microorganisms and their environment, emphasizing physiological and metabolic characteristics of various groups and their adaptation to and modification of specific habitats.MIC 140Bacterial Physiology
Sign upFundamentals of bacterial growth and bacterial responses to environmental stresses. Topics will include carbon and nitrogen regulation, growth rate control, post-exponential growth, and motility and chemotaxis.MIC 150Genomes of Pathogenic Bacteria
Sign upMolecular genetics and comparative genomics of representative pathogenic bacteria. Roles of mobile genetic elements, lateral gene transfer, and genome rearrangements in pathogen evolution. Mutation, recombination, and complementation as tools for genetic analysis. Content includes close examination of primary research articles.MIC 155LBacterial Physiology Lab
Sign upPhysiology and genetics of bacteria. Isolation and characterization of mutant strains. Mapping of mutations by conjugation and transduction studies of control of enzyme synthesis by induction, repression, and catabolite repression.MIC 162General Virology
Sign upIntegrated presentation of the nature of animal, bacterial, and plant viruses, including their structure, replication and genetics.MIC 170Yeast Molecular Genetics
Sign upSurvey of the genetics, cell biology and technologies in yeasts and related lower eukaryotes. Topics include diversity of yeasts; cell structure; metabolism; cell cycle; genetic approaches and genomics; gene expression; yeasts as models to study higher eukaryotes; and contemporary techniques.MIC 172Host-Parasite Interactions
Sign upExploration of host-parasite interactions at multiple levels, with an emphasis on global health and medically important human parasites.MIC 175Cancer Biology
Sign upExploration of the causes and treatments of cancer at multiple levels: molecular/cell biology, clinical manifestations, epidemiology and prevention.MIC 200BAdvanced Bacteriology
Sign upIntended for first-year graduate students in Microbiology and closely-related fields. Advanced topics in phylogeny, physiology and diversity of bacteria.MIC 215Recombinant DNA
Sign upApplication of recombinant DNA technology to modern problems in biology, biochemistry, and genetics, emphasizing molecular cloning strategies, choice of vectors, preparation of insert DNA, and selection procedures.MIC 217Analysis of Molecular Genetic Circuits
Sign upProject-based course focused on problem-solving strategies in biology. Emphasis on testing hypotheses by translating real-world problems into an appropriate mathematical model and translating the results into real-world understanding.MIC 262Advanced General & Molecular Virology
Sign upAdvanced integrated presentation of animal, bacterial, and plant viruses, including their structure, modes of regulation, expression and replication, and effects on host cells and organisms.MIC 263Principles of Protein-Nucleic Acid Interactions
Sign upPhysical basis of protein-nucleic acid interaction. Topics include nucleic acid recognition by proteins, thermodynamics of protein-nucleic acid stability, and kinetics of binding process for both non-specific and sequence-specific nucleic acid binding proteins.MIC 274Seminar in Genetic Recombination
Sign upBiochemical and genetic aspects of genetic recombination in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Mechanisms of recombination and biochemical and genetic characteristics of recombination proteins. Proteins include DNA strand exchange, DNA helicases, and Holliday junction resolving proteins.MIC 275Seminar in DNA Repair & Recombination
Sign upReview and discussion of current research and literature in DNA repair and recombination with presentations by individual students and invited speakers.MIC 276Advanced Concepts in DNA Metabolism
Sign upDNA damage checkpoints, homologous recombination, and meiotic recombination. An advanced treatment of the clinical and current literature to discuss emerging principles and current models in these research areas.MIC 290CAdvanced Research Conference
Sign upPresentation and critical discussion of staff research activities. Designed for advanced graduate students.MIC 291Selected Topics in Microbiology
Sign upCurrent progress in microbiology and cellular and molecular biology.MIC 292Seminar in Bacterial Physiology & Genetics
Sign upReview and discussion of current research and literature in bacterial physiology and genetics, with presentations by individual students.MIC 298Group Study
Sign upGroup study.MIC 299Research
Sign upResearch.MIC 396Teaching Assistant Training Practicum
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PHY105 courses
PHY 001APrinciples of Physics
Sign upMechanics. Introduction to general principles and analytical methods used in physics with emphasis on applications in applied agricultural and biological sciences and in physical education.PHY 001BPrinciples of Physics
Sign upContinuation of PHY 001A. Heat, optics, electricity, modern physics.PHY 007AGeneral Physics
Sign upIntroduction to general principles and analytical methods used in physics for students majoring in a biological science.PHY 007BGeneral Physics
Sign upContinuation of PHY 007A.PHY 007CGeneral Physics
Sign upContinuation of PHY 007B.PHY 009AClassical Physics
Sign upIntroduction to general principles and analytical methods used in physics for physical science and engineering majors. Classical mechanics.PHY 009BClassical Physics
Sign upContinuation of PHY 009A. Fluid mechanics, thermodynamics, wave phenomena, optics.PHY 009CClassical Physics
Sign upElectricity and magnetism including circuits and Maxwell's equations.PHY 009DModern Physics
Sign upIntroduction to physics concepts developed since 1900. Special relativity, quantum mechanics, atoms, molecules, condensed matter, nuclear and particle physics.PHY 009HAHonors Physics
Sign upClassical mechanics. Same material as PHY 009A in greater depth. For students in physical sciences, mathematics, and engineering.PHY 009HBHonors Physics
Sign upSpecial relativity, thermal physics. Continuation of PHY 009HA.PHY 009HCHonors Physics
Sign upWaves, sound, optics, quantum physics. Continuation of Physics 9HB.PHY 009HDHonors Physics
Sign upElectricity and magnetism. Continuation of Physics 9HC.PHY 009HEHonors Physics
Sign upApplication of quantum mechanics.PHY 010Topics in Physics for Nonscientists
Sign upEmphasis varies: survey of basic principles or a deeper exploration of some particular branch. Past topics included black holes, space time, and relativity; physics of music; history and philosophy; energy and the environment; and natural phenomena.PHY 010CPhysics of California
Sign upAtmospheric phenomena common in CA, local weather patterns and microclimes. Applications to CA energy, water, and resource management policies. Physics underlying regional sports in CA.PHY 010CYPhysics of California
Sign upConceptual understanding of the physics underlying regional sports in CA. Focus on skiing, surfing, and scuba diving. Atmospheric phenomena common in CA, local weather patterns and microclimes, applications to CA energy, and water are also discussed.PHY 012Visualization in Science
Sign upProduction, interpretation, and use of images in physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry as scientific evidence and for communication of research results.PHY 030Fractals, Chaos & Complexity
Sign upModern ideas about the unifying ideas of fractal geometry, chaos and complexity. Basic theory and applications with examples from physics, earth sciences, mathematics, population dynamics, ecology, history, economics, biology, computer science, art and architecture.PHY 040Introduction to Physics Computation
Sign upIntroduction to programming using C++ with examples from computational physics. Introduction to modern tools used for scientific analysis, including Scientific computing with Python.PHY 080Experimental Techniques
Sign upExperimental techniques. Design of circuits. Data analysis, sources of noise, statistical and systematic uncertainties. Light sources, detection, and measurement in basic optical systems.PHY 102Computational Laboratory in Physics
Sign upIntroduction to computational physics and to the computational resources in the physics department. Preparation for brief programming assignments required in other upper division physics classes.PHY 104AIntroductory Methods of Mathematical Physics
Sign upIntroduction to the mathematics used in upper division physics courses, including applications of vector spaces, Fourier analysis, partial differential equations.PHY 104BComputational Methods of Mathematical Physics
Sign upIntroduction to the use of computational techniques to solve the mathematical problems that arise in advanced physics courses, complementing the analytical approaches emphasized in PHY 104A.PHY 104CIntermediate Methods of Mathematical Physics
Sign upApplications of complex analysis, conditional probability, integral transformations and other advanced topics.PHY 105AAnalytical Mechanics
Sign upPrinciples and applications of Newtonian mechanics; introduction to Lagrange's and Hamilton's equations.PHY 105BAnalytical Mechanics
Sign upPrinciples and applications of Newtonian mechanics; introduction to Lagrange's and Hamilton's equations.PHY 105CContinuum Mechanics
Sign upThe continuum hypothesis and limitations, tensors, isotropic constitutive equations, and wave propagation. Applications such as elastic solids,heat flow, aerodynamics, and ocean waves.PHY 108Optics
Sign upThe phenomena of diffraction, interference, and polarization of light, with applications to current problems in astrophysics, material science, and atmospheric science. Study of modern optical instrumentation. Open to non-majors.PHY 108LOptics Laboratory
Sign upThe laboratory will consist of one major project pursued throughout the quarter, based on modern applications of optical techniques.PHY 110AElectricity & Magnetism
Sign upTheory of electrostatics, electromagnetism, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves.PHY 110BElectricity & Magnetism
Sign upTheory of electrostatics, electromagnetism, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves.PHY 110CElectricity & Magnetism
Sign upTheory of electrostatics, electromagnetism, Maxwell's equations, electromagnetic waves.PHY 112Thermodynamics & Statistical Mechanics
Sign upIntroduction to classical and quantum statistical mechanics and their connections with thermodynamics. Theory is developed for the ideal gas model and simple magnetic models and then extended to studies of solids, quantum fluids, and chemical equilibria.PHY 115AFoundation of Quantum Mechanics
Sign upIntroduction to the methods of quantum mechanics with applications to atomic, molecular, solid state, nuclear and elementary particle physics. Extensive problem solving.PHY 115BApplications of Quantum Mechanics
Sign upAngular momentum and spin; hydrogen atom and atomic spectra; perturbation theory; scattering theory.PHY 116AElectronic Instrumentation
Sign upExperimental and theoretical study of important analog electronic circuits. Linear circuits, transmission lines, input impedance, feedback, amplifiers, oscillators, noise.PHY 116BElectronic Instrumentation
Sign upContinuation of PHY 116A. Introduction to the use of digital electronics and microcomputers in experimental physics. Nonlinear electronics, integrated circuits, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, transducers, actuators.PHY 116CIntroduction to Computer-Based Experiments in Physics
Sign upIntroduction to techniques for making physical measurements using computer-based instrumentation.PHY 122AAdvanced Laboratory in Condensed Matter Physics
Sign upExperimental techniques and measurements in solid-state physics. Three-six experiments performed depending on difficulty. Individual work is stressed. Thorough write-ups of the experiments are required.PHY 122BAdvanced Laboratory in Particle Physics
Sign upExperimental techniques and measurements in nuclear and particle physics. Students perform three to six experiments depending on difficulty. Individual work is stressed. Thorough write-ups of the experiments are required.PHY 123Signals & Noise in Physics
Sign upTechniques of measurement and analysis designed to avoid systematic error and maximize signal/noise ratio. Illustrative examples of optimal filters ranging from condensed matter to cosmology.PHY 129AIntroduction to Nuclear Physics
Sign upSurvey of basic nuclear properties and concepts requiring introductory knowledge of quantum mechanics: nuclear models and forces, radioactive decay and detecting nuclear radiation and nuclear reaction products, alpha, beta and gamma decay.PHY 129BNuclear Physics, Extensions & Applications
Sign upContinuation of PHY 129A. Nuclear reactions, neutrons, fission, fusion accelerators, introduction to meson and particle physics, nuclear astrophysics, and applications of nuclear physics and techniques to mass spectrometry, nuclear medicine, trace element analysis.PHY 130AElementary Particle Physics
Sign upProperties and classification of elementary particles and their interactions. Experimental techniques. Conservation laws and symmetries. Strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. Introduction to Feynman calculus.PHY 130BElementary Particle Physics
Sign upProperties and classification of elementary particles and their interactions. Experimental techniques. Conservation laws and symmetries. Strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions. Introduction to Feynman calculus.PHY 140AIntroduction to Solid State Physics
Sign upSurvey of fundamental ideas in the physics of solids, with selected device applications. Crystal structure, x-ray and neutron diffraction, phonons, simple metals, energy bands and Fermi surfaces, semiconductors, optical properties, magnetism, superconductivity.PHY 140BIntroduction to Solid State Physics
Sign upSurvey of fundamental ideas in the physics of solids, with selected device applications. Crystal structure, x-ray and neutron diffraction, phonons, simple metals, energy bands and Fermi surfaces, semiconductors, optical properties, magnetism, superconductivity.PHY 151Stellar Structure & Evolution
Sign upChemical composition, structure, energy sources and evolutionary history of stars, with equal emphasis on both the observational data and theoretical models, including black holes, neutron stars and white dwarfs and the formation of substellar masses.PHY 152Galactic Structure & the Interstellar Medium
Sign upStructure, contents, and formation of our Milky Way galaxy, viz. its shape and size, the nature of the interstellar medium, stellar populations, rotation curves, mass determination and evidence of dark matter.PHY 153Extragalactic Astrophysics
Sign upStructure and evolution of galaxies and clusters of galaxies, including distance and mass determination, galaxy types and environments, active galactic nuclei and quasars, gravitational lensing and dark matter, global cosmological properties.PHY 154Astrophysical Applications of Physics
Sign upApplications of classical and quantum mechanics, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, and electricity and magnetism to astrophysical settings such as the Big Bang, degenerate white dwarf and neutron stars, and solar neutrinos.PHY 155General Relativity
Sign upDefinition of the mathematical frame work for the description of the gravitational field, introduction of the dynamical equations of Einstein governing its evolution and review of the key solutions, including black holes and expanding universes.PHY 156Introduction to Cosmology
Sign upContemporary knowledge regarding the origin of the universe, including the Big Bang and nucleosynthesis, microwave background radiation, formation of cosmic structure, cosmic inflation, cosmic acceleration and dark energy.PHY 157Astronomy Instrumentation & Data Analysis Laboratory
Sign upExperimental techniques, data acquisition and analysis involving laboratory astrophysics plus stellar, nebular and galaxy digital imaging, photometry and/or spectroscopy. Students perform three experiments. Individual work stressed. Minimum 10-15 page journal style articles of two experiments are required.PHY 158Formation of Galaxies & Cosmic Structures
Sign upFormation of the cosmic web, including dark-matter halos and galaxies within them. Components of the Universe (dark matter, gas, stars) and their dynamical evolution. Gravitational collapse and virialization. Gas dynamics, heating, and cooling. Galactic star formation and stellar dynamics.PHY 160Environmental Physics & Society
Sign upImpact of humankind on the environment are discussed from the point of view of the physical sciences. Calculations based on physical principles will be made, and the resulting policy implications are considered.PHY 200ATheory of Mechanics & Electromagnetics
Sign upTheoretical approaches in classical mechanics including the use of generalized coordinates and virtual work; variational calculus; Lagrange equations; symmetries, conservation laws, and Noether theorem; Lagrangian density; Hamilton formalism; canonical transformations; Poisson brackets; and Hamilton-Jacobi equations.PHY 200BTheory of Mechnics & Electromagnetics
Sign upTheoretical approaches in electromagnetics including static electromagnetic fields; Maxwell's equations; plane waves in various media; magnetohydrodynamics; diffraction theory; radiating systems; and special relativity.PHY 200CTheory of Mechanics & Electromagnetics
Sign upTheoretical approaches in electromagnetics including static electromagnetic fields; Maxwell's equations; plane waves in various media; magnetohydrodynamics; diffraction theory; radiating systems; and special relativity.PHY 204AMethods of Mathematical Physics
Sign upLinear vector spaces, operators and their spectral analysis, complete sets of functions, complex variables, functional analysis, Greens functions, calculus of variations, introduction to numerical analysis.PHY 204BMethods of Mathematical Physics
Sign upLinear vector spaces, operators and their spectral analysis, complete sets of functions, complex variables, functional analysis, Green's functions, calculus of variations, introduction to numerical analysis.PHY 210Computational Physics
Sign upAnalytic techniques to solve differential equations and eignevalue problems. Physics content of course will be self-contained, and adjusted according to background of students.PHY 215AQuantum Mechanics
Sign upFormal development and interpretation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics; its application to atomic, nuclear, molecular, and solid-state problems; brief introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics and the Dirac equation.PHY 215BQuantum Mechanics
Sign upFormal development and interpretation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics; its application to atomic, nuclear, molecular, and solid-state problems; brief introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics and the Dirac equation.PHY 215CQuantum Mechanics
Sign upFormal development and interpretation of non-relativistic quantum mechanics; its application to atomic, nuclear, molecular, and solid-state problems; brief introduction to relativistic quantum mechanics and the Dirac equation.PHY 219AStatistical Mechanics
Sign upFoundations of thermodynamics and classical and quantum statistical mechanics with simple applications to properties of solids, real gases, nuclear matter, etc. and a brief introduction to phase transitions.PHY 219BStatistical Mechanics
Sign upFurther applications of thermodynamics and classical and quantum statistical mechanics. The modern theory of fluctuations about the equilibrium state, phase transitions and critical phenomena.PHY 223AGroup Theoretical Methods of Physics-Condensed Matter
Sign upTheory of groups and their representations with applications in condensed matter.PHY 223BGroup Theoretical Methods of Physics-Elementary Particles
Sign upTheory of groups and their representations with applications in elementary particle physics.PHY 224ANuclear Physics
Sign upComprehensive study of the nucleon-nucleon interaction including the deuteron, nucleon-nucleon scattering, polarization, determination of real parameters of Smatrix, and related topics.PHY 224BNuclear Physics
Sign upStudy of nuclear models, including shell model, collective model, unified model. Energy level spectra, static momenta, and electromagnetic transition rates.PHY 224CNuclear Physics
Sign upStudy of nuclear scattering and reactions including the optical model and direct interactions. Beta decay and an introduction to weak interactions.PHY 229AAdvanced Nuclear Theory
Sign upAdvanced topics in nuclear theory; theory of quantum-mechanical scattering processes. Exact formal theory and models for two-body scattering.PHY 229BAdvanced Nuclear Theory
Sign upAdvanced topics in nuclear theory; theory of quantum-mechanical scattering processes. Exact formal theory and models for three-body scattering.PHY 230AQuantum Theory of Fields
Sign upRelativistic quantum mechanics of particles; techniques and applications of second quantization; Feynman diagrams; renormalization.PHY 230BQuantum Theory of Fields
Sign upContinuation of 230A, with selected advanced topics, such as S-matrix theory, dispersion relations, axiomatic formulations.PHY 230CQuantum Theory of Fields
Sign upRenormalization theory and applications, including dimensional regularization, Ward identities, renormalization group equations, coupling constant unification, and precision electroweak calculations.PHY 233Advanced Topics in Geometry & Physics
Sign upModern geometric methods in theoretical physics, with topics ranging from from pseudo-Riemannian differential geometry and topology with application to general relativity, black holes, and string theory.PHY 240A Condensed Matter Physics A
Sign upTopics in condensed matter physics: Crystal structure; one-electron theory; transport and optical properties of semiconductors; phonons, electron-phonon scattering.PHY 240BCondensed Matter Physics B
Sign upTopics in condensed matter physics: transport and optical properties of metals and quantum structures; experimental measurement the Fermi surface and of phonon spectra.PHY 240CCondensed Matter Physics
Sign upReview of second quantization. Interacting electron gas, electron-phonon interaction and effects, including instabilities of electronic systems. Topics in the theory of superconductivity and magnetism.PHY 243ASurface Physics of Materials
Sign upExperimental and theoretical fundamentals of surface and interface physics and chemistry, including electronic and magnetic structure, thermodynamics, adsorption kinetics, epitaxial growth, and a discussion of various spectroscopic and structural probes based on photons, electrons, ions, and scanning probes.PHY 243BSurface Physics of Materials
Sign upExperimental and theoretical fundamentals of surface and interface physics and chemistry, including electronic and magnetic structure, thermodynamics, adsorption kinetics, epitaxial growth, and a discussion of various spectroscopic and structural probes based on photons, electrons, ions, and scanning probes.PHY 243CSurface Physics of Materials
Sign upExperimental and theoretical fundamentals of surface and interface physics and chemistry, including electronic and magnetic structure, thermodynamics, adsorption kinetics, epitaxial growth, and a discussion of various spectroscopic and structural probes based on photons, electrons, ions, and scanning probes.PHY 245AHigh-Energy Physics
Sign upPhenomenology and systematics of strong, electromagnetic, and weak interactions of hadrons and leptons; determination of quantum numbers; quarks and quarkonia; deep inelastic scattering; the quark parton model; experiments at hadron colliders and electron-positron colliders.PHY 245BHigh-Energy Physics
Sign upElectroweak interactions; phenomenology of the Standard Model of SU(2)LxU(1); weak interaction experiments; properties of and experiments with W and Z vector bosons; Glashow-Weinberg-Salam model and the Higgs boson; introduction to supersymmetry and other speculations.PHY 245CCollider Physics
Sign upCollider physics. Topics include quark and gluon distribution functions and the computation of cross sections; Large Hadron Collider and International Linear Collider phenomenology; collider and detector characteristics; extracting models from data; software tools for analyzing experimental data.PHY 246Supersymmetry: Theory & Phenomenology
Sign upConstruction of supersymmetric models of particle physics; superfields; supersymmetry breaking the minimal supersymmetric standard model; supergravity. Collider phenomenology of supersymmetry. Dark matter phenomenology.PHY 246ASupersymmetry: Theory & Phenomenology
Sign upConstruction of supersymmetric models of particle physics; superfields; supersymmetry breaking the minimal supersymmetric standard model; supergravity. Collider phenomenology of supersymmetry. Dark matter phenomenology. Not offered every year.PHY 246BAdvanced Supersymmetry
Sign upAdvanced topics in supersymmetry. Topics include holomorphy, the Affleck-Dine-Seiberg superpotential, Seiberg duality for SUSY QCD, dynamical SUSY breaking, Seiberg-Witten theory, superconformal field theories, supergravity, anomaly and gaugino mediation, and the AdS/CFT correspondence.PHY 250Special Topics in Physics
Sign upTopic varies.PHY 252ATechniques of Experimental Physics
Sign upIntroduction to techniques and methods of designing and executing experiments. Problems and examples from condensed matter research will be utilized.PHY 252BTechniques of Experimental Physics
Sign upIntroduction to techniques and methods of designing and executing experiments. Problems and examples from nuclear and particle research will be utilized.PHY 252CStatistics & Data Analysis for Particle Physics
Sign upIntroduction to statistical data analysis methods in particle physics. Theoretical lectures combined with practical computer laboratory work.PHY 253Signals & Noise in Physics
Sign upTechniques for extracting signals from noise, systematic error.PHY 255Econophysics
Sign upApplication of ideas from statistical mechanics to the financial markets. Market dynamics from a physics and systems perspective, including the statistical distributions of returns, the dynamics of prices, and models for the markets.PHY 256APhysics of Information
Sign upNonlinear dynamics, deterministic chaos, bifurcations, pattern formation, symbolic dynamics, measurement theory, stochastic processes, elementary information theory, information in complex systems, computational laboratory.PHY 256BPhysics of Computation
Sign upStructural complexity, computational mechanics, information measures, causal inference, applications to complex materials, quantum dynamics, and nonequilibrium thermodynamics, computational laboratory.PHY 260Introduction to General Relativity
Sign upAn introduction to general relativity. Differential geometry and curved spacetime; the Einstein field equations; gravitational fields of stars and black holes; weak fields and gravitational radiation; experimental tests; Big Bang cosmology.PHY 262Early Universe Cosmology
Sign upIntroduction to early universe cosmology: the Big Bang, inflation, primordial nucleosynthesis, dark matter, dark energy, and other topics of current interest.PHY 263Cosmic Structure Formation
Sign upGrowth of structure from small density inhomogeneities in the early universe to the diverse structures observable today. Use of observable properties (cosmic microwave background, gravitational lensing, peculiar velocities, number density, etc.) to constrain models of structure formation and fundamental physics.PHY 265High Energy Astrophysics & Radiative Processes
Sign upSurvey covering galactic and extragalactic X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy, radiative processes, and techniques of high-energy astrophysics.PHY 266Data Analysis for Astrophysics
Sign upSurvey covering measurement and signal analysis techniques for astrophysics and cosmology throughout the electromagnetic spectrum.PHY 267Observational Extragalactic Astronomy & Cosmology
Sign upSurvey covering current areas of research on extragalactic objects, their physical properties, origin, evolution, and distribution in space.
PLB17 courses
PLB 010Plant Biology
Sign upThe social and natural science of plants. Cultural history and socioeconomic importance of plants. Biology of plants reproduction, including flowers, seeds and fruits. Historical, cultural, religious and medicinal uses of plants. Plants in the visual arts, music and literature.PLB 102California Floristics
Sign upSurvey of the California flora, emphasizing recognition of important plant families and genera and use of taxonomic keys to identify species. Phylogenetic relationships among families. Principles of systematics and taxonomy. Two Saturday field trips.PLB 105Developmental Plant Anatomy
Sign upStructural anatomy of vascular plants. Training in basic tissue sectioning, staining, and use of the compound microscope.PLB 108Systematics & Evolution of Angiosperms
Sign upDiversity and classification of angiosperms (flowering plants) on a world scale, and current understanding of the origin of angiosperms and evolutionary relationships and trends within them based on morphological and molecular evidence.PLB 111Plant Physiology
Sign upPlant cell as a functional unit. The processes of absorption, movement, and utilization of water and minerals. Water loss, translocation, photosynthesis, respiration.PLB 111DProblems in Plant Physiology
Sign upDiscussion of problems and applications relating to principles presented in PHY 111. Problems assigned weekly showing novel applications of principles described in PHY 111; repare answers to be delivered orally during the class period.PLB 112Plant Growth & Development
Sign upIntroduction to the mechanisms and control systems that govern plant growth and development and the responses of plants to the environment. Strong emphasis on vegetative development of flowering plants.PLB 112DProblems in Plant Growth & Development
Sign upDiscussion of problems and applications relating to principles presented in PLB 112. Students will be assigned problems each week showing novel applications of the principles described in PLB 112 and will prepare answers to be delivered orally during class period.PLB 113Molecular & Cellular Biology of Plants
Sign upMolecular and cellular aspects of the growth and development of plants and their response to biological and environmental stresses. Primary focus on processes unique to plants. Experimental approaches will be emphasized.PLB 113DProblems in Molecular & Cellular Biology of Plants
Sign upDiscussion of topics and applications related to principles presented in PLB 113. Assigned topics each week show novel applications of the principles described in PLB 113; discussion of topics during class period.PLB 116Plant Morphology & Evolution
Sign upIntroduction to the form, development and evolution of vascular plants. Emphasis given to the form and development of reproductive structures in ferns and seed-producing plants as a basis for determining evolutionary relationships.PLB 117Plant Ecology
Sign upThe study of the interactions between plants, plant populations or vegetation types and their physical and biological environment. Special emphasis on California. Four full-day field trips and brief write-up of class project required.PLB 119Population Biology of Invasive Plants & Weeds
Sign upOrigin and evolution of invasive plant species and weeds, reproduction and dispersal, seed ecology, modeling of population dynamics, interactions between invasive species, native species, and crops, biological control. Laboratories emphasize design of competition experiments and identification of weedy species.PLB 123Plant-Virus-Vector Interaction
Sign upAnalysis of interactions necessary for viruses to infect plants.Interactions among insect vectors and host plants involved in the plant-virus life cycle. Evolutionary aspects of the molecular components in viral infection and modern approaches to the interdiction of viral movement.PLB 126Plant Biochemistry
Sign upThe biochemistry of important plant processes and metabolic pathways. Discussion of methods used to understand plant processes, including use of transgenic plants.PLB 143Evolution of Crop Plants
Sign upOrigins of crops and agriculture, including main methodological approaches, centers of crop biodiversity, dispersal of crops, genetic and physiological differences between crops and their wild progenitors, agriculture practiced by other organisms, and role and ownership of crop biodiversity.PLB 148Introductory Mycology
Sign upSystematics, ecology, evolution, and morphology of fungi. Importance of fungi to humans.
PSC100 courses
PSC 001General Psychology
Sign upPrinciples and basic concepts of psychology. The empirical study of individual behavior including perception, cognition, development, personality, social interactions and the biological underpinnings of behavior.PSC 001YGeneral Psychology
Sign upIntroduction to empirical approaches. Focus on perception, cognition, personality and social psychology, and biological aspects of behavior.PSC 012YData Visualization in the Social Sciences
Sign upIntroduction to quantitative data across the social sciences (Communications, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and other disciplines). Transforming data, describing data, producing graphs, visual reasoning, and interpretations.PSC 020Freshman Psychology Seminar
Sign upInstructor will acquaint students with his or her program of research, the development of scientific questions from the literature, and the application of research methods to examine these questions. Critical thinking will be encouraged via expository writing and brief presentations.PSC 041Research Methods in Psychology
Sign upIntroduction to experimental design, interviews, questionnaires, field and observational methods, reliability, and statistical inference.PSC 061Mindreading: Understanding Other Minds
Sign upPsychological perspectives on the process of understanding other people's minds. Integration of social-cognitive theories with empirical evidence to explore the human ability to make sense of others' thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.PSC 100Introduction to Cognitive Psychology
Sign upIntroduction to human information processing, mental representation and transformation, imagery, attention, memory, language processing, concept formation, problem solving, and computer simulation.PSC 100YIntroduction to Cognitive Psychology
Sign upIntroduction to human information processing, mental representation and transformation, imagery, attention, memory, language processing, concept formation, problem solving, and computer simulation.PSC 101Introduction to Biological Psychology
Sign upSurvey and integration of the relationships between behavior and biological processes, including physiology, genes, development, ecology, and evolution. May be taught abroad.PSC 103AStatistical Analysis of Psychological Data
Sign upDesign and statistical analysis of psychological investigations and the interpretation of quantitative data in psychology.PSC 103BStatistical Analysis of Psychological Data
Sign upProbability theory, sampling distributions, statistical inference, and hypothesis testing using standard parametric and correlational approaches. Simple regression analysis, multiple regression analysis, non-parametric statistics, introduction to multivariate statistics, with applications in psychology.PSC 104Applied Psychometrics: An Introduction to Measurement Theory
Sign upExamination of the basic principles and applications of classical and modern test theory. Topics include test construction, reliability theory, validity theory, factor analysis and latent trait theory.PSC 107Questionnaire & Survey Research Methods
Sign upIntroduction to survey and questionnaire research methods with emphasis on how to ask questions. Social and psychological factors that influence survey response. Practical aspects of fielding survey and questionnaire research.PSC 113Developmental Psychobiology
Sign upThe biology of behavioral development; survey and integration of the organismic and environmental processes that regulate the development of behavior.PSC 120Agent-Based Modeling
Sign upIntroduction to agent-based computer simulation and analysis with emphasis on learning how to model animals, including humans, to achieve insight into social and group behavior.PSC 121Physiological Psychology
Sign upRelationship of brain structure and function to behavior, motivation, emotion, language, and learning in humans and other animals. An introduction to the methodology of physiological psychology and neuroscience.PSC 122Advanced Animal Behavior
Sign upAdvanced integrative survey of biological principles of behavioral organization, emphasizing historical roots, current research directions, conceptual issues and controversies. Laboratory exercises on the description and analysis of the behavior of captive and free-living animals.PSC 123Hormones & Behavior
Sign upEndocrine physiology with an emphasis on the principles of behavior. Fundamental relationships between hormones and various behaviors engaged in by the organism during its lifetime. Role of hormones in behavioral homeostasis, social behavior, reproductive behavior, parental behavior, adaptation to stress.PSC 124Comparative Neuroanatomy
Sign upOverview of the neuroanatomy in mammalian vertebrates, focusing on the cerebral cortex and experimental techniques. Examine changes or modifications to neural structures as a result of morphological or behavioral specializations.PSC 124LComparative Neuroanatomy Laboratory
Sign upComparative neuroanatomy laboratory illustrating modern neuroanatomical techniques in determining neural connections within the mammalian brain. Includes experimentation and presentation of results.PSC 125Behavioral Epigenetics
Sign upReview of basic principles in genetics and epigenetics with emphasis on behavior. Introduction to the use of modern molecular methods in understanding the complex relationships between genes, environment, and behavior.PSC 126Health Psychology
Sign upPsychological factors influencing health and illness. Topics include stress and coping, personality and health, symptom perception and reporting, heart disease, cancer, compliance, and health maintenance and promotion.PSC 130Human Learning & Memory
Sign upConsideration of major theories of human learning and memory with critical examination of relevant experimental data.PSC 131Perception
Sign upCognitive organizations related to measurable physical energy changes mediated through sensory channels. Perception of objects, space, motion, events.PSC 132Language & Cognition
Sign upIntroduction to the cognitive processes involved in language comprehension and production. Topics include the biological foundations of language, speech perception, word recognition, syntax, reading ability, and pragmatics.PSC 133Neuroeconomics/Reinforcement Learning & Decision Making
Sign upTheoretical and empirical approaches to neuroeconomics (neuroscience of decision making) from psychology, neuroscience, economics, and computer science. Neuroscience of judgment and decision making, behavioral economics, and reinforcement learning.PSC 135Cognitive Neuroscience: The Biological Foundations of the Mind
Sign upNeuroscientific foundations of higher mental processes including attention, memory, language, higher-level perceptual and motor processes, and consciousness. Emphasis on the neural mechanisms which form the substrates of human cognition and the relationship of mind to brain. May be taught abroad.PSC 136Psychology of Music
Sign upIntroduction to the mental and neural representations of musical structures and processes involved in perceiving, remembering, and performing music. Music and emotion.PSC 137Neurobiology of Learning & Memory
Sign upOverview of the neural basis of learning and memory focusing on modern behavioral neuroscience research with animals. Topics include consolidation, neural plasticity, cellular competition for memory storage, and the role of neurogenesis in learning.PSC 138Consciousness & Cognition
Sign upCurrent theoretical and empirical evidence in the study of cognition and consciousness. Theories of consciousness, psychological and neural basis of conscious and unconscious processes such as attention, intentionality, and dreams.PSC 139Advanced Cognitive Neuroscience
Sign upAdvanced integrative survey of cognitive neuroscience, including perception, attention, memory, and navigation. Emphasis on reviewing literature in psychology, neuroscience, and statistics; understanding methods in cognition; and presentation skills.PSC 140Developmental Psychology
Sign upAn ontogenetic account of human behavior through adolescence with emphasis on motor skills, mental abilities, motivation, and social interaction.PSC 140YDevelopmental Psychology
Sign upOntogenetic account of human behavior through adolescence with emphasis on motor skills, mental abilities, motivation, and social interaction.PSC 141Cognitive Development
Sign upTheories, methods, evidence, and debates in the field of cognitive development, such as nature/nurture, constraints on learning, and the role of plasticity. Topics include attention, memory, concepts about the physical and social world, and language.PSC 142Social & Personality Development
Sign upSocial and personality development of children, infancy through adolescence. Topics include the development of personality, achievement motivation, self-understanding, sex-role identity, and antisocial behavior. Emphasis on the interface between biological and social factors.PSC 143Infant Development
Sign upPsychological development in infancy. Topics include physical and motor development, sensory and nervous system development, and memory and cognitive development. Emphasis will be on evaluating theories, empirical research, and experimental methods for understanding infant development.PSC 145Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Sign upNeuroscientific theories and methods (EEG, ERP, fNIRS, fMRI) that inform an understanding of behavioral and cognitive development over infancy and childhood.PSC 146The Development of Memory
Sign upTheory and research on memory development with focus on infancy and childhood.PSC 148Developmental Disorders
Sign upCurrent scientific knowledge of the influences of biological, cognitive, and environmental factors on the emergence of disorders with onset in childhood. Examples include autism spectrum, ADD/ADHD, dyslexia and dyscalculia. Emphasis placed on understanding these disorders, their causes and their treatments.PSC 150Relationship Science: Lust, Love, & Evolution
Sign upEvolutionary perspectives on attraction and close relationships. Integrating social psychological and evolutionary theories with empirical evidence pertaining to human mating.PSC 151Social Psychology
Sign upBehavior of the individual in the group. Examination of basic psychological processes in social situations, surveying various problems of social interaction: group tensions, norm-development, attitudes, values, public opinion, status.PSC 151VSocial Psychology
Sign upBehavior of the individual in the group. Examination of basic psychological processes in social situations, surveying various problems of social interaction: group tensions, norm-development, attitudes, values, public opinion, status.PSC 152Social Cognition
Sign upExamines how social factors influence how we attend to, encode, and process information and how these mental processes affect subsequent judgments and behavior.PSC 153Psychology & Law
Sign upCurrent theoretical and empirical issues in the study of psychology and law. Topics include eyewitness testimony, child abuse, jury decision making, juvenile delinquency and criminology, prediction of violence, insanity defense, and memory for traumatic events.PSC 154Psychology of Emotion
Sign upIntroduction to current theories and research on emotion and bodily feelings with special reference to self-knowledge.PSC 157Stereotyping, Prejudice, & Stigma
Sign upSocial psychological underpinnings of stereotyping, prejudice, and stigma from sociocultural, motivational, and cognitive perspectives. Topics include: origins, maintenance, change, effects on person perception and memory, and the automaticity/controllability of stereotyping and prejudice.PSC 158Sexual Orientation & Prejudice
Sign upCurrent scientific knowledge about sexual orientation and prejudice based on sexual orientation. Emphasis is placed on learning the skills necessary for a critical understanding of science and public policy issues relevant to sexuality.PSC 159Gender & Human Reproduction
Sign upPsychology of reproduction. Reproductive events over the course of an individual's life, including sexual development, mate choice, relationships, and reproduction. Biological and social psychological explanations at the levels of mechanism and evolutionary function.PSC 161Psychology of the Self
Sign upPsychological theory and research on the self. Topics include: self-knowledge, self-esteem, self-regulation, self-presentation, cognitive and emotional aspects of the self, and the role of the self in shaping social interaction.PSC 162Introduction to Personality Psychology
Sign upScientific study of personality. Methods of personality research. Overview of current research and theory in the field of personality psychology. May be taught abroad.PSC 165Introduction to Clinical Psychology
Sign upMajor theoretical formulations in the history of clinical psychology, from classical psychoanalysis to contemporary existentialism and behavior modification. Survey based on lectures, films, and tapes, of what clinical psychologists do, including methods of appraisal, professional roles, and approaches to treatment.PSC 168Abnormal Psychology
Sign upDescriptive and functional account of behavioral disorders, with primary consideration given to neurotic and psychotic behavior.PSC 169The Science of Multi-Cultural Psychology
Sign upEffects of culture and ethnicity on psychological processes, such as social cognition, emotion, motivation, personality, self-concept, and interpersonal behavior (i.e., how culture makes who you are). Individuals' construction of multicultural identity and experiences.PSC 170Psychology of Religion
Sign upMajor theories, issues, data, and research methodologies of the psychology of religion. Religious experience and expression; religious development in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood; conversion; religious influences on physical and mental health; cross-cultural perspectives.PSC 175Genius, Creativity, & Leadership
Sign upPhenomenon of genius is examined from a diversity of theoretical, methodological, and disciplinary perspectives, with an emphasis on outstanding creativity and leadership in art, music, literature, philosophy, science, war, and politics.PSC 200Proseminar in Psychology
Sign upIntroduces matriculating graduate students to research activities of departmental faculty.PSC 201Research Preceptorship
Sign upResearch preceptorship.PSC 202Research Seminar
Sign upPresentation of graduate research to program faculty and graduate students.PSC 204AStatistical Analysis of Psychological Experiments
Sign upProbability theory, sampling distributions, statistical inference, and hypothesis testing using standard parametric and correlational approaches. Analysis of variance, factorial and repeated measures, and tests of trends.PSC 204BCausal Modeling of Correlational Data
Sign upExamination of how to make causal inferences from correlational data in the behavioral sciences. Emphasis is on testing rival causal models using correlations among observed variables. Beginning with multiple regression analysis, discussion advances to path analysis and related techniques.PSC 204DAdvanced Statistical Inference from Psychological Experiments
Sign upAdvanced topics in statistical inference, which may include probability theory, sampling distributions, statistical inference and hypothesis testing, nonparametric statistics, Bayesian approaches, and advanced issues in analysis of variance.PSC 205AApplied Multivariate Analysis of Psychological Data
Sign upReview of the major methods of multivariate data analysis for psychological data. Students will program statistical routines using a linear algebra-based computing language. Topics will include multivariate analysis of variance. discriminant analysis, canonical analysis factor analysis, and component analysis.PSC 205BFactor Analysis
Sign upTheory and methods of factor analysis, including exploratory factor analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, and principal component analysis.PSC 205CStructural Equation Modeling
Sign upTheory and methods of structural equation modeling, including path analysis, confirmatory factor analysis, multiple-group modeling and latent growth curve modeling.PSC 205DMultilevel Models
Sign upIntroduction to statistical techniques for the analysis of normal, hierarchically structured data, such as cross-sectional clustered data or repeated-measures data. Topics include hierarchical linear models, latent growth curve models, and how these methods handle unbalanced and/or missing data.PSC 205EApplied Psychometrics & Measurement Theory
Sign upExamination of the basic principles and applications of classical and modern test theory. Topics include test construction, reliability theory, validity theory, factor analysis, and latent trait theory.PSC 205FItem Response Theory
Sign upItem response theory allows for the creation of precise measurement instruments in psychological testing. Review Classical Test Theory, and then cover basic IRT models through advanced applications.PSC 205GApplied Longitudinal Data Analysis
Sign upModeling and understanding of intraindividual change and interindividual differences in change. Reviews conventional methods and introduces contemporary techniques for modeling intraindividual change.PSC 206ATheoretical Foundations: Research Methods in Psychology
Sign upExamines the philosophy and research practices underlying experimental psychology. Topics to be covered include philosophy of science/epistemology, research design, inference and bias in research, theory development, validity, the social context of research, and critical thinking about research.PSC 206BResearch Methods in Psychology: Applications in Social-Personality Research
Sign upOverview of the research designs, assessment methods, and statistical procedure used by social-personality psychologists. Focus on the practical issues that arise when using each method in specific research contexts.PSC 207Survey & Questionnaire Research Methods
Sign upSurvey and questionnaire research methods with emphasis on how to ask questions. Cognitive, motivational, and social processes that influence how respondents answer questions; sampling techniques; Internet resources; practical aspects of fielding survey and questionnaire research.PSC 208Physiological Psychology
Sign upA conceptual analysis of the contributions of neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and neurochemistry to an understanding of animal and human behavior.PSC 208AFundamentals of Human Electrophysiology
Sign upIn-depth introduction and hands-on experience with the event-related potential (ERP) method in the study of attention, executive control, memory, language and social cognitive neuroscience.PSC 209AIntroduction to Programming: Matlab
Sign upThe Matlab programming environment as a means of organizing, analyzing, and visualizing scientific data. Basic programming concepts such as variables, loops, conditional branching, and efficient programming techniques will be emphasized.PSC 210Fundamentals of Cognitive Neuroimaging
Sign upIntroduction to empirical foundations and methodology of neuroimaging, emphasizing pragmatics of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to study cognition. Topics include MR physics, the relationship between neural activity and the BOLD response, experimental design, and analysis of fMRI data.PSC 211Advanced Topics in Neuroimaging
Sign upCritical presentation and discussion of the most influential advanced issues in neuroimaging, emphasizing fMRI design/analysis and the integration of fMRI with EEG/MEG.PSC 212ADevelopmental Psychology: Cognitive & Perceptual Development
Sign upTheories and empirical findings concerning human cognitive and perceptual development. Development of perception, memory, concepts (e.g., theory of mind, concepts about number), problem solving, and language from infancy to adolescence.PSC 212BDevelopmental Psychology: Social, Emotional, & Personality Development
Sign upTheories and empirical findings concerning human social, emotional, and personality development. Development of emotions, moral reasoning and behavior, personality, self-concept, and social cognition from infancy to adolescence (may include adulthood).PSC 217Behavioral Genetics
Sign upReview basic principles in genetics and select topics in molecular genetics with emphasis on behavior. Use of modern molecular methods to outline complex relationships between genes, environment, and behavior.PSC 218AFundamentals of Animal Behavior
Sign upSurvey of the phenomena and theory of animal behavior from the perspectives of multiple biological disciplines, including evolution, ecology, psychology, genetics, neurobiology, endocrinology, and animal science.PSC 218BFundamentals of Animal Behavior
Sign upSurvey of the phenomena and theory of animal behavior from the perspectives of multiple biological disciplines, including evolution, ecology, psychology, genetics, neurobiology, endocrinology, and animal science.PSC 220History of Psychology
Sign upA lecture-seminar on the history of psychology and on the applicability of early psychological theory and research to contemporary investigations.PSC 221Academic Writing in Psychology
Sign upStrategies for developing and honing academic writing skills and writing productivity, with a particular focus on how to write a clear and compelling empirical journal article in psychology.PSC 230Cognitive Psychology
Sign upAnalysis of the mental processes by which knowledge is acquired, manipulated, stored, retrieved and used.PSC 231Sensation & Perception
Sign upAnalysis of the role of sensory processes and perception in experience and their effects on behavior.PSC 241Attitudes & Social Influence
Sign upSurvey of theory and research in the field of attitudes and social influence. Topics include attitude definition and measurement, major theories of attitude formation and change, the relationship between attitudes and behavior, and recent directions and controversies.PSC 242Attraction & Close Relationships
Sign upSocial psychological theory and research on attraction and close relationships, with a particular emphasis on romantic relationships. Covers attachment theory, interdependence theory, and evolutionary psychological perspectives.PSC 243Social Cognition
Sign upProcesses underlying the perception, memory, and judgment of social stimuli, the effects of social and affective factors on cognition, and the interpersonal consequences of those processes. Topics include automaticity/control, motivated cognition, person perception, stereotyping, attitudes, and persuasion.PSC 244Stereotyping, Prejudice, & Stigma
Sign upExamines the social psychological underpinnings of stereotyping, prejudice, and stigma, including sociocultural, motivational, and cognitive factors.PSC 245Social Psychology
Sign upTheory and research in social psychology.PSC 247Personality
Sign upTheory and research in human personality.PSC 251Topics in Genetic Correlates of Behavior
Sign upTheory and experiment in the genetic contributions to animal and human behavior.PSC 252Topics in Psychobiology
Sign upCritical study in a selected area of psychobiology.PSC 261Cognitive Neuroscience
Sign upGraduate core course for neuroscience. Neurobiological bases of higher mental function including attention, memory, language. One of three in three-quarter sequence.PSC 263Topics in Cognitive Psychology
Sign upSelected topics in language processing, memory, perception, problem solving, and thinking, with an emphasis on the common underlying cognitive processes.PSC 264Topics in Psycholinguistics
Sign upDiscussion of fundamental issues in the psychology of language.PSC 270Topics in Personality & Social Psychology
Sign upCritical study of a selected area of personality or social psychology.PSC 271ACore Concepts & Methods in Learning, Memory, & Plasticity
Sign upCore concepts and methods used in studies of learning, memory and plasticity. Behavioral paradigms and measurement approaches in human and animal studies of learning and plasticity, as well as a consideration of the functional, anatomical and neuronal mechanisms underlying brain plasticity.PSC 271BCore Concepts & Methods in Learning, Memory, & Plasticity
Sign upCore concepts and detailed survey methods used in studies of learning, memory and plasticity, from the cellular and molecular level to the level of neural circuits. Areas of learning, memory, and plasticity research where recent progress has been made in linking across these levels of analysis.PSC 271CTranslational Approaches to Learning, Memory, & Plasticity Disorders
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SOC90 courses
SOC 001Introduction to Sociology
Sign upPrinciples and basic concepts of sociology. The study of groups, culture, collective behavior, classes and caste, community and ecology, role, status, and personality.SOC 002Self & Society
Sign upExploration of how self and identity are formed and transformed by socialization and social interaction in relation to roles, groups, institutions, power, and social change. Consideration of how people make decisions, fall in love, and come to blows.SOC 003Social Problems
Sign upGeneral sociological consideration of contemporary social problems in relation to sociocultural change and programs for improvement.SOC 004Immigration & Opportunity
Sign upSocial and demographic analysis of immigration: motives and experiences of immigrants; immigration and social mobility; immigration, assimilation, and social change; multicultural societies. Detailed study of immigration into the U.S., with comparative studies of Europe, Australia, and other host countries.SOC 005Global Social Change: An Introduction to Macrosociology
Sign upIntroduction to change and diversity in world history, including the United States. Examines population and family, technological change and economic development, power and status, culture and identity.SOC 006Health & Illness
Sign upIntroduction to the sociology of health and illness, including social determinants of health, social inequalities in health/health disparities, social construction of health, the organization of health care, and the politics of health care reform.SOC 007Race & Ethnicity
Sign upIntroduction to the sociology of race and ethnicity in the U.S., including historical changes in racial and ethnic categories, mechanisms of racism, anti-racist social movements, the role of social policy in shaping patterns of racial inequality.SOC 011Sociology of Labor & Employment
Sign upLabor and employment issues in the contemporary United States with some use of historical and comparative materials. Topics include strategies pursued by employers and employees, labor market discrimination and the role of social policies in shaping labor markets.SOC 012YData Visualization in the Social Sciences
Sign upIntroduction to quantitative data across the social sciences (Communications, Political Science, Psychology, Sociology, and other disciplines). Transforming data, describing data, producing graphs, visual reasoning, and interpretations.SOC 025Sociology of Popular Culture
Sign upSocial mechanisms that shape modern popular culture. High, folk, and mass culture: historical emergence of popular culture. Mass media, commercialization, ideology and cultural styles. Theories and methods for analyzing cultural expressions in pop music, street art, film, television, and advertising.SOC 046Introduction to Social Research Methods
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Examination of logic and methods of sociological research. Selection and definition of problems of investigation, data-gathering techniques, and sampling.SOC 056Introduction to Social Statistics
Sign upThis version has ended; see updated course, below. Data-analysis techniques, measurement, scaling, multivariate analysis, and quantitative measures of association.SOC 100Origins of Modern Sociological Theory
Sign upOrigins of modern sociological thought. Special emphasis on three major theorists from the classical tradition of 19th-century European social thought: Karl Marx, Max Weber, and Emile Durkheim.SOC 103Evaluation Research Methods
Sign upSurveys applications of research methods to the evaluation of social programs, primarily emphasizing methodological issues, e.g., research design and data collection; uses of evaluation research are also discussed and placed in theoretical context. Participation in an evaluation project.SOC 104The Political Economy of International Migration
Sign upAnalysis of worldwide migration patterns, and social scientific theories of international and transnational migration. Focus in economical, political, and social impact of immigration and potential for international and regional cooperation.SOC 106Intermediate Social Statistics
Sign upIntermediate level course in statistical analysis of social data, emphasizing the logic and use of statistical measures, procedures, and mathematical models especially relevant to sociological analysis.SOC 118Political Sociology
Sign upRelation of social cleavages and social cohesion to the functioning of political institutions; the social bases of local and national power structures; social sources of political movement, analysis of concepts of alienation, revolution, ideology, ruling class, and elite.SOC 120Deviance
Sign upSocial structural sources, institutional practices and microprocesses associated with illegality, evil, disease, immorality, disability, racial and class differences, citizenship, and the body. Special emphasis on expert knowledge and the production and management of social difference.SOC 122Sociology of Adolescence
Sign upChronological age and social status; analysis of social processes bearing upon the socialization of children and adolescents. The emergence of youth cultures. Generational succession as a cultural problem.SOC 124Education & Inequality in the U.S.
Sign upFunctions of schooling in contemporary U.S. society. Racial, ethnic, social class, and gender inequalities in student outcomes. Consideration of classic and current controversies in the sociology of education and education policy.SOC 125Sociology of Culture
Sign upSociological approaches to study of historical and contemporary culture and mass media, and their structuring in relation to social actors, institutions, stratification, power, the production of culture, audiences, and the significance of culture in processes of change.SOC 126Social Interaction
Sign upEveryday interaction in natural settings; ethnographic approaches to the understanding of social meanings, situations, personal identity and human relationships. Particular attention to the work of Erving Goffman and to principles of field observation and qualitative analysis.SOC 128Interracial Interpersonal Dynamics
Sign upAnalysis of the influences of cultural differences and racial stratification on interpersonal interaction in instrumental settings (e.g., work, education, political action) and intimate settings (e.g., friendship, love, marriage, family). Minority/majority relationships.SOC 129Sociology of Black Experience in America
Sign upSurvey of historical and contemporary theoretical sociological perspectives on the Black experience in United States. Emphasis on comparisons of Black sociological perspectives and mainstream perspectives of specific sociologists.SOC 130Race Relations
Sign upFunctions of the social definitions of race and racial groups. Analysis of racial conflict, oppression, and other forms of ethnic stratification. Models of ethnic interaction and social change. Emphasis on racial relationships within the U.S.SOC 131The Family
Sign upContemporary family life in historical and cross-cultural perspective. How different family forms arose, their significance today and prospects for further family change. Attention to power relations within and beyond the family and to the social implications of family transformation.SOC 132The Sociology of Gender
Sign upAnalysis of biological, psychological, cultural and structural conditions underlying the status and roles of men and women in contemporary society, drawing on a historical and comparative perspective.SOC 133Sexual Stratification & Politics
Sign upAnalysis of origins, dynamics, and social implications of sexual stratification. Examination of classical and contemporary theorists such as Engels, Freud, J.S. Mill, de Beauvoir, Juliet Mitchell, D. Dinnerstein. Attention to selected issues in social movements for and against sexual equality.SOC 135Social Relationships
Sign upSocial and cultural factors influencing friendships and intimate relationships. Topics include relationship development, relationship maintenance, and relationship loss.SOC 137African American Society & Culture 1790 to 1990
Sign upPolitical and social transformations of African American communities between 1790 and 1990, as seen through film, literature, and music. Topics include: Black consciousness, Afro-Slave culture, The Harlem Renaissance, and contemporary Hip Hop.SOC 138Economic Sociology
Sign upOverview of the rapidly growing field of economic sociology. Focus on variations in the ways that markets are organized. The relationship between individual and collective rationality will also be emphasized.SOC 139Corporations & Society
Sign upStudy of the history and power of the modern corporation; corporate organization; politics, the state, and the corporation; labor unions and the labor process; competition, regulation and international markets; the multinational and conglomerate corporation; and mass markets and consumerism.SOC 140Social Stratification
Sign upSystems of social ranking, theories of stratification; power, prestige, culture, and styles of life of various social classes; social mobility and its consequences for social structure.SOC 141Industrialization & Social Change
Sign upSelected technological and social factors. Preconditions of economic development and industrialization. Social, political, and cultural issues at various levels of economic development. Major historical differences and major current trends. Emphasis either on highly industrialized countries or on less developed countries.SOC 143AUrban Society
Sign upTheories of city origins. Analysis of the historic process of urbanization and of varying city types. Comparison of American and European experience of metropolitanization,counterurbanization,and neighborhood change. Consideration of competing theories of urban growth and change and competing visions of the urban future.SOC 143BSociology of City Life
Sign upCritical dissection of the loss of community issue. Analysis of the organization of primary ties in the city, of the culture of urban public life and of the learning of city skills.SOC 144Agriculture & Society
Sign upDevelopment of agriculture as a major enterprise in modern society with the concomitant reduction in the labor force and family farms. Analysis of issues including mechanization, migrant labor, corporate farming, and public resource policy.SOC 145ASociology of Third World Development
Sign upIntroduction to theories and contemporary issues in the sociology of development. Topics such as urbanization, rural/agrarian change, class, status groups, international division of labor, sectoral shifts, international capital, informal economy, gender, and political processes are analyzed within a comparative-historical framework.SOC 145BGender & Rural Development in the Third World
Sign upPolitical-economic analysis of women and work during the process of socioeconomic change in the world with particular attention to the family/household context.SOC 146Sociology of Religion
Sign upRelationship between social structures and religions. The social setting of the major world religions. Religious innovators and institutionalization (churches, sects, cults). Secularization in the modern world and the rise of secular ideologies.SOC 147Sociological Perspectives on East Asia
Sign upSociological theories and concepts applied toward understanding East Asian society. Emphasis on the political structure, stratification, and economy in China and Japan. Analysis of historical and contemporary similarities and differences.SOC 148Collective Behavior
Sign upStudy of behavior of human crowds and masses in extraordinary circumstances, including crowd panics, mass scares, collective protests, riots, revolutionary situations, ecstatic and revivalist gatherings, crazes, fads, and fashions.SOC 150Criminology
Sign upSociological analysis of criminal behavior in relation to social structure and the criminalization process.SOC 151The Criminal Justice System
Sign upSociological analysis of the different components of the criminal justice system including the emergence and interpretation of criminal laws, the contemporary roles and functions of the police, criminal courts and correctional institutions.SOC 152Juvenile Delinquency
Sign upStudy of juvenile delinquency in relation to the family, peer groups, community, and institutional structures. Consideration of processing of the delinquent by formal agencies of control.SOC 153The Sociology of Childhood
Sign upContemporary childhood in historical, cross-cultural, and global perspectives. Examine changes in understanding of the nature of childhood and "best interests of the child" by class, race, gender, geographic region, and historical period.SOC 155Sociology of Law
Sign upLaw considered as social control; relation of legal institutions to society as affecting judicial decision making and administration of justice. Lawyers as an occupational group. Legal reform.SOC 156Social Movements
Sign upAnalysis of several aspects of social movements: mobilization, forms of organization, ideology, recruitment, leadership, strategies and tactics, development, effects. Frequent use of sound and film materials.SOC 157Social Conflict
Sign upAnalysis of the causes, dynamics, and regulation of social conflict within and between various kinds of social groupings with particular reference to nonviolent methods of waging and regulating conflict.SOC 159Work, Employment, & Careers in the 21st Century
Sign upHistorical and contemporary overview of employment, work, and occupations in American society. Study of authority and power relations, labor markets, control systems, stratification, and corporate structures, and how these factors shape work in diverse or organizational and employment setting.SOC 160Sociology of the Environment
Sign upProduction, consumption, and urban expansion. Basic social logics surrounding current problems of resource scarcity (environmental extractions) and excess wastes (environmental additions). Ways that society can change and re-organize itself to become more environmentally conscious and hence ecologically sustainable.SOC 161The Civil Justice System
Sign upEmpirical studies of the different aspects of the civil justice system in the United States and Global Society including the litigation, juries, civil rights, and international laws relating to trade, the environment, and human rights.SOC 162Society, Culture, & Health
Sign upAnalysis of how socio-cultural factors shape illness experience. Evaluation of how certain conditions come to be understood as health conditions; illness identities and biographies; doctor-patient interactions; biomedical cultures; how race, ethnicity, and gender shape health practices.SOC 163Population Health: Social Determinants & Disparities in Health
Sign upSurvey of the social determinants and disparities in health: measurement of population health; health transitions and global disparities; domestic disparities in health by class, race/ethnicity, nativity, gender, and sexual orientation; social determinants including social support, social stress, neighborhoods, and policy.SOC 164Health Policy & Politics
Sign upIntroduction to health policy and politics, including health care access and delivery, and policies related to health inequalities, the social determinants of illness and health behaviors.SOC 165Death & Dying
Sign upContemporary social dimensions of death, including cultural and historical variation. Social processes, organization, demographics, and cultural dimensions of death; social meanings of death and dying; medicalization; bereavement; hospice and funeral work; race, class, and gender.SOC 170Population
Sign upIntroduction to the study of human population, including theories and statistical measures; social causes and consequences of population trends; changes in population structure; geographical distribution, migration, sociopsychological factors affecting fertility.SOC 171Sociology of Violence & Inequality
Sign upHow systems of social inequality organize the practice of violence. Definitions of violence and issues affecting the social capacity for violence. Analysis and comparison of different forms of violence associated with race, class, gender relations and social organization.SOC 172Intersections of Race, Gender & Class
Sign upSociological approaches to the intersections of race, class, gender and other forms of social difference. Theories of racism and racial identities. Application of intersectional analyses to historical and contemporary social problems and social movements.SOC 173Sociology Through Literature
Sign upIntroduction to analysis of literature as sociological data. Reading of numerous works on American and other societies by authors such as Steinbeck, Lewis, Dreiser, Schulberg, Orwell, etc.SOC 174American Jewish Identities & Communities
Sign upSociology of Jewish life, analyzing challenges to Jewish identity and community in the diaspora. Diversity within the Jewish community, Americanization, women, new immigrants, post-Holocaust Jewish identity, and LGBT Jews.SOC 176Sociology of Knowledge, Science, & Scientific Knowledge
Sign upSocial, cultural, and historical dimensions of knowledge, especially scientific knowledge. Problems, methods, and theory in sociology of scientific knowledge. Laboratory and historical case studies. Scientific and technical knowledge in institutional and organizational contexts.SOC 178Punishment & Corrections
Sign upOrigins, characteristics, and consequences of various sanctions and punishment regimes including fines, banishment, incarceration, deportation, and execution.SOC 180AComplex Organizations
Sign upDevelops a sociological approach to organizations theory. Designed to introduce sociological concepts, address the alternative psychological and economic models, and involve students in the practice of organizational analysis.SOC 185Social Policy
Sign upExamination of social policies that affect the well-being of individuals, families and groups, including such policies as old-age pensions, health insurance, and aid to the poor.SOC 185YSocial Policy (Hybrid Version)
Sign upExamination of social policies that affect the well-being of individuals, families and groups, including such policies as old-age pensions, health insurance, and aid to the poor.SOC 188Markets, Culture & Inequality in China
Sign upEconomic and political systems and patterns of social interaction and inequality in China. State and corporate structures and practices, market and consumer behaviors, social mobility and stratification, protest and resistance.SOC 201Social Research
Sign upComparative survey of sociological inquiry, taught as a practicum. Philosophy of social science; values and research; research agendas and research problem formulations; research process; explanations; interpretation; study design; concept formation, measure, sampling, data acquisition, inference; rhetoric and presentation of findings.SOC 206Quantitative Analysis in Sociology
Sign upSurvey of the statistical models and methods that serve as a foundation for quantitative research in sociology, with an emphasis on multivariate regression analysis, as well as measurement theory and time series analysis.SOC 207AMethods of Quantitative Research
Sign upPrinciples of study design, examination of measurement, survey research methods and multivariate analysis. Stresses actual practice of techniques. Carry out quantitative data analysis using packaged computer programs.SOC 208Topics in Advanced Quanitative Methods in Social Science
Sign upAnalysis of the logic and application of an advanced statistical model; the particular model chosen may vary. Emphasis on the model's assumptions, its strengths and weaknesses, its application for social science inquiry, and the relationship between methods and social theory.SOC 215Economy, Polity, & Society
Sign upIntroduces students to topics and selected issues in the related fields of economic and political sociology and political economy.SOC 220Deviance, Law, & Social Control
Sign upReport and discussions of literature on selected forms of deviance in relation to law and formal social control. Agency contacts and exploratory research projects.SOC 224Sociology of Education
Sign upOverview of sociological theories accounting for the form, role, and evolution of educational systems. Emphasis on empirical research on education and social stratification and application to educational policy.SOC 225Cultural Sociology
Sign upExplores the varied ways in which culture is understood in the social sciences and the research questions that follow from contrasting viewpoints. The approach is historically informed and focused on changing cultural forms in relation to industrialization and post-modernism.SOC 226Sociological Social Psychology
Sign upAdvanced study of the varying approaches, methods, issues and topical concerns of sociological social psychology. Analysis of central and representative historical and contemporary works.SOC 227Sociology of Reproduction
Sign upRecent social science scholarship in such areas as teenage pregnancy, family planning, abortion, adoption, AIDS, and new reproductive technologies; focus on the current situation in the United States.SOC 230Ethnic (Race) Relations
Sign upAdvanced study of the determinants of ethnic groupings and their interrelationships. Major theme will be the patterns of ethnic stratification and causes of ethnic conflict. Specific focus upon dominance and resistance to dominance. Influence of social science research.SOC 233Gender, Culture, & Local/Global Transformation
Sign upFocus on critical approach to women and development; analyze local transformations with global connections within specific cultural contexts. Covers theory, methodological issues, and relationship between theory and practice.SOC 234Gender, Family, & Society
Sign upMajor theoretical traditions and concerns in family sociology and sociology of gender. Analysis of selected classical and contemporary works representative of functionalist, Marxist, psychoanalytic, feminist and critical theoretical approaches to these subjects; e.g., Engels, Parsons, Freud, Horkheimer, Goode, Lasch, Mitchell.SOC 242AMethodologies of Sociohistorical Inquires
Sign upIntroduction to comparative and case methodological approaches to sociohistorical inquiry, theoretical and practical issues, and substantive research agendas ranging from study of large-scale social transformations to close microhistories, including research agendas being developed by students in the course.SOC 243Urban Society
Sign upBroad overview of the issues and concerns of the field of urban sociology. Special emphasis on the human experience of urban living in contemporary, cross-cultural or historical settings.SOC 245Developing Societies
Sign upAnalysis of social and economic problems of developing societies from the standpoint of theory and research on modernization and underdevelopment. Nature of third world dependency and interdependence in the global political economy.SOC 248Social Movements
Sign upAnalysis of current issues in and contributions to the study of collective behavior and social movements; particular focus upon the strategies and tactics of social movements.SOC 254Sociology of Health & Illness
Sign upSociological perspectives and methods on the study of health and illness. Select topics for supervised research. Research paper required.SOC 255Sociology of Law
Sign upAnalysis of the nature of the legal process and its impact on social behavior. Will consider (1) nature and functions of law, (2) the organization and administration of law, and (3) the capacity of law to affect social behavior.SOC 265AClassical Sociological Theory
Sign upIntroduces graduate students to the work of the main classical thinkers in the tradition of social theory, such as Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Freud, G.H. Mead, and Parsons, locating them within the historical,cultural,and philosophical milieu in which their ideas originated.SOC 265BTheory in Contemporary Sociology
Sign upExplores the uses of theories in contemporary sociology by tracing their connections with classical sociological writings and their relations to broader theoretical concerns of contemporary social thought, with particular emphasis on relevance to the current historical, cultural and social milieu.SOC 270Social Demography
Sign upHow social institutions affect and are affected by the level and variation of mortality, migration, and fertility. Special emphases on the determinants of fertility-related attitudes and behavior, on less-developed countries, and on contemporary empirical studies.SOC 280Organizations & Institutions
Sign upTheory of formal organizations and bureaucracy. Methods of research in organizational and institutional studies. Historical and comparative analysis of political, religious, educational, military, and economic structure.
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STA 010Statistical Thinking
Sign upStatistics and probability in daily life. Examines principles of collecting, presenting and interpreting data in order to critically assess results reported in the media; emphasis is on understanding polls, unemployment rates, health studies; understanding probability, risk and odds.STA 012Introduction to Discrete Probability
Sign upRandom experiments; countable sample spaces; elementary probability axioms; counting formulas; conditional probability; independence; Bayes theorem; expectation; gambling problems; binomial, hypergeometric, Poisson, geometric, negative binomial and multinomial models; limiting distributions; Markov chains.STA 013Elementary Statistics
Sign upDescriptive statistics; basic probability concepts; binomial, normal, Student's t, and chi-square distributions. Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals for one and two means and proportions. Regression.STA 013YElementary Statistics
Sign upDescriptive statistics; basic probability concepts; binomial, normal, Student's t, and chi-square distributions. Hypothesis testing and confidence intervals for one and two means and proportions. Regression.STA 015AIntroduction to Statistical Data Science I
Sign upPrinciples of descriptive statistics. Concepts of randomness, probability models, sampling variability, hypothesis tests and confidence interval.STA 015BIntroduction to Statistical Data Science II
Sign upProgramming in R; Summarization and visualization of different data types; Concepts of correlation, regression, classification and clustering.STA 015CIntroduction to Statistical Data Science III
Sign upClassical and Bayesian inference procedures in parametric statistical models. Nonparametric methods; resampling techniques; missing data. Use of statistical software.STA 032Gateway to Statistical Data Science
Sign upProbability concepts; programming in R; exploratory data analysis; sampling distribution; estimation and inference; linear regression; simulations; resampling methods. Alternative to STA 013 for students with a background in calculus and programming.STA 035AStatistical Data Science I
Sign upPrinciples of descriptive statistics; basic R programming; probability models; sampling variability; hypothesis tests; confidence intervals; statistical simulation.STA 035BStatistical Data Science II
Sign upAdvanced programming and data manipulation in R. Principles of data visualization. Concepts of correlation, regression, analysis of variance, nonparametrics.STA 035CStatistical Data Science III
Sign upIntroduction to statistical learning; Bayesian paradigm; model selection; simultaneous inference; bootstrap and cross validation; classification and clustering methods; PCA; nonparametric smoothing techniques.STA 100Applied Statistics for Biological Sciences
Sign upDescriptive statistics, probability, sampling distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, contingency tables, ANOVA, regression; implementation of statistical methods using computer package.STA 101Advanced Applied Statistics for the Biological Sciences
Sign upBasic experimental designs, two-factor ANOVA without interactions, repeated measures ANOVA, ANCOVA, random effects vs. fixed effects, multiple regression, basic model building, resampling methods, multiple comparisons, multivariate methods, generalized linear models, Monte Carlo simulations.STA 103Applied Statistics for Business & Economics
Sign upDescriptive statistics; probability; random variables; expectation; binomial, normal, Poisson, other univariate distributions; joint distributions; sampling distributions, central limit theorem; properties of estimators; linear combinations of random variables; testing and estimation; Minitab computing package. May be taught abroad.STA 104Applied Statistical Methods: Nonparametric Statistics
Sign upSign and Wilcoxon tests, Walsh averages. Two-sample procedures. Inferences concerning scale. Kruskal-Wallis test. Measures of association. Chi square and Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests.STA 106Applied Statistical Methods: Analysis of Variance
Sign upBasics of experimental design. One-way and two-way fixed effects analysis of variance models. Randomized complete and incomplete block design. Multiple comparisons procedures. One-way random effects model.STA 108Applied Statistical Methods: Regression Analysis
Sign upSimple linear regression, variable selection techniques, stepwise regression, analysis of covariance, influence measures, computing packages.STA 109Fundamentals of Statistical Learning
Sign upPrinciples of supervised and unsupervised statistical learning. Regularization and cross validation; classification, clustering and dimension reduction techniques; nonparametric smoothing methods.STA 130AMathematical Statistics: Brief Course
Sign upBasic probability, densities and distributions, mean, variance, covariance, Chebyshev's inequality, some special distributions, sampling distributions, central limit theorem and law of large numbers, point estimation, some methods of estimation, interval estimation, confidence intervals for certain quantities, computing sample sizes.STA 130BMathematical Statistics: Brief Course
Sign upTransformed random variables, large sample properties of estimates. Basic ideas of hypotheses testing, likelihood ratio tests, goodness-of-fit tests. General linear model, least squares estimates, Gauss-Markov theorem. Analysis of variance, F-test. Regression and correlation, multiple regression. Selected topics.STA 131AIntroduction to Probability Theory
Sign upFundamental concepts of probability theory, discrete and continuous random variables, standard distributions, moments and moment-generating functions, laws of large numbers and the central limit theorem.STA 131BIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics
Sign upSampling, methods of estimation, bias-variance decomposition, sampling distributions, Fisher information, confidence intervals, and some elements of hypothesis testing.STA 131CIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics
Sign upTesting theory, tools and applications from probability theory, Linear model theory, ANOVA, goodness-of-fit.STA 135Multivariate Data Analysis
Sign upMultivariate normal distribution; Mahalanobis distance; sampling distributions of the mean vector and covariance matrix; Hotellings T2; simultaneous inference; one-way MANOVA; discriminant analysis; principal components; canonical correlation; factor analysis. Intensive use of computer analyses and real data sets.STA 137Applied Time Series Analysis
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Sign upVarieties of categorical data, cross-classifications, contingency tables, tests for independence. Multidimensional tables and log-linear models, maximum likelihood estimation; tests of goodness-of-fit. Logit models, linear logistic models. Analysis of incomplete tables. Packaged computer programs, analysis of real data.STA 141AFundamentals of Statistical Data Science
Sign upIntroduction to computing for data analysis & visualization, and simulation, using a high-level language (e.g., R). Computational reasoning, computationally intensive statistical methods, reading tabular & non-standard data.STA 141BData & Web Technologies for Data Analysis
Sign upEssentials of using relational databases and SQL. Processing data in blocks. Scraping Web pages and using Web services/APIs. Basics of text mining. Interactive data visualization with Web technologies. Computational data workflow and best practices. Statistical methods.STA 141CBig Data & High Performance Statistical Computing
Sign upHigh-performance computing in high-level data analysis languages; different computational approaches and paradigms for efficient analysis of big data; interfaces to compiled languages; R and Python programming languages; high-level parallel computing; MapReduce; parallel algorithms and reasoning.STA 142AStatistical Learning I
Sign upFundamental concepts and methods in statistical learning with emphasis on supervised learning. Principles, methodologies and applications of parametric and nonparametric regression, classification, resampling and model selection techniques.STA 142BStatistical Learning II
Sign upFundamental concepts and methods in statistical learning with emphasis on unsupervised learning. Principles, methodologies and applications of clustering methods, dimension reduction and manifold learning techniques, graphical models and latent variables modeling.STA 144Sampling Theory of Surveys
Sign upSimple random, stratified random, cluster, and systematic sampling plans; mean, proportion, total, ratio, and regression estimators for these plans; sample survey design, absolute and relative error, sample size selection, strata construction; sampling and nonsampling sources of error.STA 145Bayesian Statistical Inference
Sign upSubjective probability, Bayes Theorem, conjugate priors, non-informative priors, estimation, testing, prediction, empirical Bayes methods, properties of Bayesian procedures, comparisons with classical procedures, approximation techniques, Gibbs sampling, hierarchical Bayesian analysis, applications, computer implemented data analysis.STA 160Practice in Statistical Data Science
Sign upPrinciples and practice of interdisciplinary, collaborative data analysis; complete case study review and team data analysis project.STA 200AIntroduction to Probability Theory
Sign upFundamental concepts of probability theory, discrete and continuous random variables, standard distributions, moments and moment-generating functions, laws of large numbers and the central limit theorem.STA 200BIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics I
Sign upSampling, methods of estimation, bias-variance decomposition, sampling distributions, Fisher information, confidence intervals, and some elements of hypothesis testing.STA 200CIntroduction to Mathematical Statistics II
Sign upTesting theory, tools and applications from probability theory, Linear model theory, ANOVA, goodness-of-fit.STA 201SAS Programming for Statistical Analysis
Sign upIntroductory SAS language, data management, statistical applications, methods. Includes basics, graphics, summary statistics, data sets, variables and functions, linear models, repetitive code, simple macros, GLIM and GAM, formatting output, correspondence analysis, bootstrap. Prepare SAS base programmer certification exam.STA 205Statistical Methods for Research with SAS
Sign upFocus on linear statistical models widely used in scientific research. Emphasis on concepts, methods and data analysis using SAS. Topics include simple and multiple linear regression, polynomial regression, diagnostics, model selection, variable transformation, factorial designs and ANCOVA.STA 206Statistical Methods for Research I
Sign upFocus on linear statistical models. Emphasis on concepts, method and data analysis. Topics include simple and multiple linear regression, polynomial regression, diagnostics, model selection, factorial designs and analysis of covariance. Use of professional level software.STA 207Statistical Methods for Research II
Sign upLinear and nonlinear statistical models emphasis on concepts, methods/data analysis using professional level software. Topics include linear mixed models, repeated measures, generalized linear models, model selection, analysis of missing data, and multiple testing procedures.STA 208Statistical Methods in Machine Learning
Sign upFocus on linear and nonlinear statistical models. Emphasis on concepts, methods, and data analysis. Topics include resampling methods, regularization techniques in regression and modern classification, cluster analysis and dimension reduction techniques. Use professional level software.STA 209Optimization for Big Data Analytics
Sign upOptimization algorithms for solving problems in statistics, machine learning, data analytics. Review computational tools for implementing optimization algorithms (gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent, coordinate descent, Newton's method.).STA 220Data & Web Technologies for Data Analysis
Sign upEssentials of using relational databases and SQL. Processing data in blocks. Scraping Web pages and using Web services/APIs. Basics of text mining. Interactive data visualization with Web technologies. Computational data workflow and best practices. Statistical Methods.STA 221Big Data & High Performance Statistical Computing
Sign upHigh-performance computing in high-level data analysis languages; different computational approaches and paradigms for efficient analysis of big data; interfaces to compiled languages; R and Python programming languages; high-level parallel computing; MapReduce; parallel algorithms and reasoning.STA 222Biostatistics: Survival Analysis
Sign upIncomplete data; life tables; nonparametric methods; parametric methods; accelerated failure time models; proportional hazards models; partial likelihood; advanced topics.STA 223Biostatistics: Generalized Linear Models
Sign upLikelihood and linear regression; generalized linear model; Binomial regression; case-control studies; dose-response and bioassay; Poisson regression; Gamma regression; quasi-likelihood models; estimating equations; multivariate GLMs.STA 224Analysis of Longitudinal Data
Sign upStandard and advanced methodology, theory, algorithms, and applications relevant for analysis of repeated measurements and longitudinal data in biostatistical and statistical settings.STA 225Clinical Trials
Sign upBasic statistical principles of clinical designs, including bias, randomization, blocking, and masking. Practical applications of widely-used designs, including dose-finding, comparative and cluster randomization designs. Advanced statistical procedures for analysis of data collected in clinical trials.STA 226Statistical Methods for Bioinformatics
Sign upStandard and advanced statistical methodology, theory, algorithms, and applications relevant to the analysis of -omics data.STA 231AMathematical Statistics I
Sign upFirst part of three-quarter sequence on mathematical statistics. Emphasizes foundations. Topics include basic concepts in asymptotic theory, decision theory, and an overview of methods of point estimation.STA 231BMathematical Statistics II
Sign upSecond part of a three-quarter sequence on mathematical statistics. Emphasizes: hyposthesis testing (including multiple testing) as well as theory for linear models.STA 231CMathematical Statistics III
Sign upThird part of three-quarter sequence on mathematical statistics. Emphasizes large sample theory and their applications. Topics include statistical functionals, smoothing methods and optimization techniques relevant for statistics.STA 232AApplied Statistics I
Sign upEstimation and testing for the general linear model, regression, analysis of designed experiments, and missing data techniques.STA 232BApplied Statistics II
Sign upAlternative approaches to regression, model selection, nonparametric methods amenable to linear model framework and their applications.STA 232CApplied Statistics III
Sign upMultivariate analysis: multivariate distributions, multivariate linear models, data analytic methods including principal component, factor, discriminant, canonical correlation and cluster analysis.STA 233Design Experiments
Sign upTopics from balanced and partially balanced incomplete block designs, fractional factorials, and response surfaces.STA 235AProbability Theory
Sign upMeasure-theoretic foundations, abstract integration, independence, laws of large numbers, characteristic functions, central limit theorems. Weak convergence in metric spaces, Brownian motion, invariance principle. Conditional expectation. Topics selected from: martingales, Markov chains, ergodic theory.STA 235BProbability Theory
Sign upMeasure-theoretic foundations, abstract integration, independence, laws of large numbers, characteristic functions, central limit theorems. Weak convergence in metric spaces, Brownian motion, invariance principle. Conditional expectation. Topics selected from: martingales, Markov chains, ergodic theory.STA 235CProbability Theory
Sign upMeasure-theoretic foundations, abstract integration, independence, laws of large numbers, characteristic functions, central limit theorems. Weak convergence in metric spaces, Brownian motion, invariance principle. Conditional expectation. Topics selected from: martingales, Markov chains, ergodic theory.STA 237ATime Series Analysis
Sign upAdvanced topics in time series analysis and applications. Models for experimental data, measures of dependence, large-sample theory, statistical estimation and inference. Univariate and multivariate spectral analysis, regression, ARIMA models, state-space models, Kalman filtering.STA 237BTime Series Analysis
Sign upAdvanced topics in time series analysis and applications. Models for experimental data, measures of dependence, large-sample theory, statistical estimation and inference. Univariate and multivariate spectral analysis, regression, ARIMA models, state-space models, Kalman filtering.STA 238Theory of Multivariate Analysis
Sign upMultivariate normal and Wishart distributions, Hotellings T-Squared, simultaneous inference, likelihood ratio and union intersection tests, Bayesian methods, discriminant analysis, principal component and factor analysis, multivariate clustering, multivariate regression and analysis of variance, application to data.STA 240ANonparametric Inference
Sign upComprehensive treatment of nonparametric statistical inference, including the most basic materials from classical nonparametrics, robustness, nonparametric estimation of a distribution function from incomplete data, curve estimation, and theory of resampling methodology.STA 240BNonparametric Inference
Sign upComprehensive treatment of nonparametric statistical inference, including the most basic materials from classical nonparametrics, robustness, nonparametric estimation of a distribution function from incomplete data, curve estimation, and theory of re-sampling methodology.STA 241Asymptotic Theory of Statistics
Sign upTopics in asymptotic theory of statistics chosen from weak convergence, contiguity, empirical processes, Edgeworth expansion, and semiparametric inference.STA 242Introduction to Statistical Programming
Sign upEssentials of statistical computing using a general-purpose statistical language.STA 243Computational Statistics
Sign upNumerical analysis; random number generation; computer experiments and resampling techniques (bootstrap, cross validation); numerical optimization; matrix decompositions and linear algebra computations; algorithms (markov chain monte carlo, expectation-maximization); algorithm design and efficiency; parallel and distributed computing.STA 250Topics in Applied & Computational Statistics
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